yes, sophie, iam yes, sophie, i am standing yes, sophie, iam standing between the two reservoirs whichhan 3000 homes in this area alone. at least 11 people are now known to have died, and incredibly, harris county, which includes houston and 4.5 million people, is said to be 30% flooded. baby cries. don't worry, it's ok! he's not the only one finding it tough. it's now four days since the hurricane, and still the rescues roll on and on. we're trying to get to a safer, drier place so... how's the baby doing? oh, he's fine, he's just scared. are you scared? just a little bit, yeah. in the chaos, though, there is some order. the boats have come from all over the united states, and not a moment too soon. there are a lot of people, they need help, and i'm thankful for these people, really am, i've never been through anything like this. this operation was fast and smooth. police, soldiers, civilians, all working together. from above, they can see the problem, and it's a big one. a reservoir a few blocks away is overflowing. it was built 80 years ago to protect the young city of houston, but

we are about to get going with sophie hitchon in the women's hammer.on bbc news on this fourth day of the championships. that's all from sportsday. there'll be more sport here on bbc news throughout the evening. for now, good night. this is bbc news. let's look at some of the main stories this evening. three young children are being cared for by relatives after their mother was found dead at the family home in the black country. detectives believe the 26 year—old was murdered by her husband who then killed himself at the house in 0ldbury.

for some more analysis let's go over to sophie standing by on wall street.clear from the beginning that this would be a far-reaching deal should it come to pass. what exactly are regulators looking at here? sophie: there are some serious doubts this deal would form the largest pesticides company. it would definitely undergo an in-depth investigation by the european union and they're going to focus on the lack of competition in the market and the consequences of this deal. the deal has a high potential to hurt farmers. a huge company like this could just reach -- raise prices while lowering the quality and the degree of innovation in the markets for pesticides in general. also plant genetic traits which are developed in laboratories. christoph: what do investors think, could this probe the real the whole endeavor? -- the rail the whole -- derail the whole endeavor? sophie: the threat of a monopoly in the market is -- regulators are trying to complete their review by t the first week of january 2018. regulators rarely complete their analysis by deadlines. mons

sify -- sophie, thank you.ellor angela merkel says german carmakers are not doing enough to clean the air. the missions cheating scandal led to a diesel summit between the government and the industry which experts called a failure. now the government wants more action, fast. reporter: even the most modern diesel engines emit six times more nitrogen dioxide. that's why thehe environmentnt industry is called for karmiel's -- carmakers to go beyond simple updatetes. >> german cititizens have a rigt to clean air. the nationonal court of justice will be prescribibing what to d. unfortunately banning diesel from city centeters would then e on the table. reporter: to avoid that and, -- ban, carmakers would have to retrofit diesel engines. their current plan will go far enough. all manufacturers would need to undertake the reef it's. but a new study by the german automobile association sews german diesel cars emit far less than their international counterparts, cold comfort. christoph: it was meant as an insult and bec

sophie kamaruddin, watching the opens. sophie: the risk rally flailed on wall street.he latest trump rhetoric, along with perhaps an impact when it comes to global trade. lower.arkets set to open the correlation has subsided somewhat rigged futures, changes. sydney, marginally higher. we have the likes of -- returning with stronger crude prices. oz minerals, also beating estimates. it is due to start developing the second a guest copper mine in south australia next month. other earnings to keep an eye out for. watch -- this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: it is 8:00 a.m. here in hong kong live from bloomberg's asian headquarters. i'm yvonne man. stories, asia-pacific markets said to follow wall street lower as a threat to shut down washington reverberates across capitol hill. worried the issue might hinder the debt ceiling debate prompts a sovereign rating review of u.s. debt risks. we are live from bloomberg's global headquarters. betty: i am betty liu in new york, just after 8:00 p.m. counting down to jackson hole, ando draghi defend stimulus says south central bank should b

sophie hitchen has got the bronze medalfrom rio sophie hitchen has got the bronze medal from rio andplace on the podium. she has been at the forefront of british hammer throwing and is the first female medallist in the event at the olympics last year. we spoke to the former coach of jessica ennis—hill who knows all about the throwing and he had this to say about her. the coach is a superb coach and she has great prospects. the way she qualified is superb. it is a tough competition, it is not a given that she will get a medal even though she got a bronze in rio, but she is amongst it. sophie will love the 60,000 crowd, she will love the noise and the support from this partisan british crowd. i think the crowd has a part to play. people who are coming, support sophie. what else can we look forward to this evening? we have got four gold medals this evening, the final of the women's triplejump and evening, the final of the women's triple jump and the 110 metres final with no brits in that, but two brits in the final of the women's1500 metres, which will be the last event on the track. la

sophie know, i gave it all i could and that was alli could do. highlights of the games and the former ballerina got off toa games and the former ballerina got off to a great start in the hammock age. but poland's anita wlodarczyk was setting the gold standard and sophie hitchon's forth throw went nowhere. she never recovered. british tears are unfortunately becoming a familiar image at these championships. could not quite find the rhythm i had in qualification. i knew i was in better shape and just disappointed. not producing it tonight. world record-holder and 0lympic a00 metres champion wayde van niekerk is attempting to emulate michaeljohnson this week by doubling up in the a00 and 200 metres. it means he will race six times in six days. with no usain bolt in the 200, there will be a new world champion but there are a number of british athletes hoping to crash the party. daniel talbot tracked wayde van niekerk all the way in the first heat to make it through to wednesday's semifinal and zharnel hughes made it through as a fastest loser. the tr

high hopes as well for sophie hitchon in the women‘s hammer.io but he —— she threw 72.32, a couple of metres on her personal best but even if she had broken her personal best, that would not have been good enough for a medal. anita wlodarczyk, the great polish hammer for all women, she medal. anita wlodarczyk, the great polish hammerfor all women, she won that. sophie hitchon was in tears because she wanted a follow—up that olympic medallists a world medal but it was not to be. yes, just could not quite find a rhythm that i had an qualification. i knew i was in bad shape and disappointed to just not produce it tonight. well, that was one of four gold medals to be won tonight and we have the 110 meter hurdles, the men, this was always going to be fascinating because we had the return of the man who won the 2012 gold medal against the reigning olympic champion 0mar mcleod and here is the jamaican coming through to win. that really lifted the jamaican crowd after usain bolt and elaine thomson were beaten at the weekend. there was a surprise bronze

welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze for five years twenty six sailors were held captive by somali pirates before they eventually walked free but there are other cases where people still are being held hostage. how can you keep pirates at bay while we ask the man who's negotiated the pirate groups to secure the release of hostages the coordinator of the hostage support partnership for oceans beyond piracy organization colonel john is with me today. from the gulf of guinea into the horn of africa to the streets of singapore is a pricey piracies as real today as ever. and putting people lives in danger so what is a more than pirates are their preferred targets and what needs to be done to contain the threat. colonel john stevens coordinator of the hostage support partnership for oceans beyond piracy is senior adviser to u.n. . maritime crime program it's great to have you on our program welcome so you have negotiated with pirates to free hostages many times who are they an organized crime unit hardened professional types or just individual criminals randomly banded together. a

sophie hutchinson, bbc news. what is the weather going to be like, good for a run? across central and eastern areas, another dry day. tonight was not too bad if you escape the showers. still some showers around at the moment. but they should largely fade away overnight. mostly dry nightand largely fade away overnight. mostly dry night and largely clear skies especially through central and eastern areas. quite a cold night for august, down into single figures away from the towns and cities. so a fresh start in the east but high pressure m oves fresh start in the east but high pressure moves in tomorrow but low pressure moves in tomorrow but low pressure may spoil things for some of you in the west. quickly clouding over of you in the west. quickly clouding overin of you in the west. quickly clouding over in northern ireland, occasional rain into the afternoon spreading into the west of scotland. much of england and wales and east of scotland, a dry day with increasing amounts of cloud but some hazy sunshine through the afternoon. it will be the wetter spell to wednes

vonnie: sophie, just how are refineries coping in the u.s. right now?ophie: a part of the country that accounts for america's -- we agree this means demand should exceed supply. but it doesn't work like that. at least not now. oil prices have been falling monday because demand -- will refinery plants in houston were shutting down because of the storm. they normally have the capacity to refine about 2 million barrels of oil a day. of the refineries and other countries are taking over. vonnie: there are other things on the plate. tax reform is going on the road. so far the president has it a lot of stumbling blocks. tell us more. sophie: there's just not any plan to sell as basic questions remain unanswered. will changes be permanent? what rate will corporations andd up paying? -- end up paying? instead of giving details, the president gives lecture after lecture and we already know what his plans are. they sound great they are not detailed. secretary steven mnuchin predicted having taxes go down by august. now he revealed the enormity means it might not

javier: sophie, thank you very much for the analysis.g of things that need to change, germany's top companies are run by men. that is a fact, considering only 6% of members of supervisory boards in this country are female. germany's minister for women's affairs is now threatening the firms. they either perform better next year or the ministry will take action with legislation, an idea that splits the elite of german management. reporter: he never uses think of quarters for women in corporate boardrooms as an issue. at age 34, she has her own company. and since june she has been on the board at public retreated telecommunications company free net. it's one of the hundred german corporations legally required to staff 30% of their boards with women. >> in is not good that we need a quota because i don't think it is natural. but i think it is necessary because otherwise there is little incentive to promote women to key positions. reporter: the report ordered by german family affairs minister chose companies need to be compelled to appoint wo

sophie long, bbc news.st of sicily. as we heard from sophie, the beach is very quiet. what is it like where you are now? it is 43.5 degrees here, an all—time high of sicily this year. you have to go back to 1999 when the temperature was higher, 48.9 degrees, and for some comparison we are talking about average temperatures for august in the south, on the mediterranean, of about 33 degrees, 10 degrees higher. this is the main square in castellammara del golfo, very close to palermo, sicily. usually packed, look at it now. the restaurants in front of us, the tourist information com pletely front of us, the tourist information completely empty, goes down. they say mad dogs and englishmen in the midday sun, there are just a few waiters and me at the moment. talking about the fires, above this building here, there are three fires going on right now being put out by fire crews, those are the charred remains of there, it started a few days ago and was put out two days ago now, and that is the big risk. we are told

let's go straight to sophie kamaruddin.g of moving parts, we are waiting on the dirt i -- july trade figures. the consensus forecast is for an exports.in chinese stock falling about a 10th of a percent after rising half a percent monday.hang seng is losing a 10th of a percent after a two-day rise. in the currency space, check out the onshore yuan, up slightly - thet this .7175 - offshore rate is extending gains. home,g chinese money at that has helped to stabilize the yuan. that plus the broad decline in the dollar in recent months has helped push the yuan higher by around 3.3% in 2017. the line could be set for its first annual gains since 2013. this blue circle marks the surprise devaluation we got back in 2015 for the yuan. a quick check on what's happening in hong kong. the hang seng is on the back here. we have consumer discretionary stocks up about almost 1%. keep a close eye about what is going on in the property space. real estate owing to tenths of a percent -- falling to tenths of a percent. 2/10 of a percent. ris

track championships with another title, sophie. andy, thank you. newsnight is coming up on bbc two.is evan. and on newsnight, no—one can forget our mps‘ expenses scandal, well there are some details of eu commission expenses out today. they say it's all reasonable. we'll ask if they're right. join me now on bbc hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm tulsen tollett. botswana runner isaac makwala is through to the men's aoom final, just hours after qualifying for the semis — by himself! he won 10,000m gold now mo farah has the double in his sights again, as he qualifies for the 5,000m final. and england's women get their rugby world cup defence underway with a crushing win over spain. news of that england win and the other home nations results on the opening day in dublin — but first it's been another eventful day at the world athletics championships in london where olly foster is ready to bring us up to speed on everything along with the continuing and quite amazing story of isaac makwala. yes, the story runs and runs and so does isaac makwala. a quite crazy 48 hours for him. he's been

let's get the latest on the markets from sophie. sophie: a mixed picture in asia., the nikkei 225 lower by -- by .4%, japanese stocks retreating alongside u.s. equities given the rising geopolitical picture. as markets brace for a ramping up of tensions come the second day lower for the kospi, down .2%, but the won trading higher. the dollar easing some of its advance. i want to highlight the thai baht, steady near a two-year high following the three point 7% growth for the second quarter on a yearly basis. the surgeonwhere, commodities still gaining almost 4%. iron ore also on the rise and thatt a one-week high, but is not helping the asx 200, falling .4%. losing steel players over 4%, bluescope leading the drop in that are despite doubling its profit in its latest set of results. telco and ip stocks propping up gains, and the honk saying, china unicom -- hang seng, china unicom shares jumping after resuming trade, so leading gains when it comes to the asian session here. haidi: thank you for that. we get that better than expected second-quarter gdp beat. infosys

i think that's really a matter of perspective sophie because here standing on the surface of the earth if you look down your home but if you look up it's an endless void so it's it's kind of how use you you are to the environment that you're in onboard a space ship the world is is in the distance and you're surrounded by by the eternity of the universe but there's there's a great beauty to it and sort of like an infant leaving the home where you're taking your first steps and and starting to experience the rest of everything else and and there's a great sense of wonder and a lack of understanding but also dawning awareness of just how small your home is and how we norma's everything else is and i think that perspective is what really sits in your mind and and overwhelms your feelings is the newness of it the beauty of it the opening of understanding that comes from it that's that's what's in your mind most of the time as an astronaut or a cosmonaut onboard the space station now as a commander on the s.s. you're juggling your responsibilities have between machines and people all stuck f

let's get it over to sophie. sophie: the hang seng opening in , i.t.een, higher by .8% gaining over 2%, energy gaining 1.7%, so playing catch-up, and looking at gains this morning. a second day higher. to point out that although this index is headed for its eighth monthly gain, skeptics coming out of the woodwork, the cost of hedging the index is above the annual average. of bearish options has jumped. some cloudss, forming when it comes to the hang seng's performance this year. stocks,you chinese little changed. red,ikkei 225 in the easing some of the days losses. i want to show you some movers we are watching in hong kong. sinopec gaining this morning, jumping the most since december 2016. wanda hotels falling after first-half results. we may have earnings the driver when it comes to the hang seng today, on the up for a second day. rishaad: thank you. right, let's get you up to speed when it comes to first word news headlines. let's get things started with china. the country has called on the u.s. to with draw

here is sophie. sophie: chinese markets are looking mix.ok at the benchmark, we are seeing it rise to 10th of a percent, snapping a three-day drop. this as shares in shenzhen are offsetting the drop we are seeing in the shanghai market are at the hung saying is adding a 10th of a percent, this after three days of losses. we are seeing equity markets is down for 10th of a percent to join the nikkei 225 lower in the region. take a look at what is going on in the currency space. we have the onshore yuan falling to 10th of a percent, trading at 36 a dollar fed slightly stronger reference rate from the pboc this morning. we have the offshore rate swinging to losses. aussie is up two cents ahead of the china data we have at the top of the hour. we have factory production, retail sales on the radar, expected to come under pressure as credit expansion slows bit take a look at the commodity complex. shanghai, goldn is falling 6/10 of a percent. rebar is back at 2013 levels, bc of global markets are calling a bubble when it calls to the field market.

and we were keeping an eye on the hammer as well because sophie hitchon, who w011 as well because sophiet the rio games last year, as she was qualifying for the hammers sign up and shejust qualifying for the hammers sign up and she just needed the won through to cruise into monday's hammerfinal on monday night. 73 metres, a metre 01’ so on monday night. 73 metres, a metre or so down on her personal best she sat in rio. a former professional ballymena, it she was training in athletics and thought it would be more her thing. she is into another globalfinal. sophie hitchon is, a really busy morning, we are all bracing ourselves for what we are about to see on the track in the next half an hour or so, usain bolt and all those speed demons. we are going to have another look ahead to the rest of the evening's edged unit injusta the rest of the evening's edged unit injust a moment, let's the rest of the evening's edged unit in just a moment, let's add you the rest of the evening's edged unit injust a moment, let's add you back is today bbc sport centre with catherine. we will be back for the bu

that's get it to sophie at reactionlooking to that and the pmi number. the dow puts in an all-time high and it is acting as a headwind. we are seeing investors shrugged off enthusiasm. equities and currencies under pressure and the region. , ande stocks falling .2% pressure on the aussie dollar has not subsided given that data out of sydney, falling .5%. chinese stocks extending wednesday's losses, down about .1%. snapping ang three-day rise, down .3%. we are seeing investors curb enthusiasm as the rally in hong kong could be due for a pause. we do have the dollar rebounding slightly from a 15 month low, weakness and other asian currencies. check out the onshore and offshore rates for the yuan falling after a week or fix from the pboc. back footocks on the this thursday, check this out. the shanghai composite could be testing 3300 level for the first time since january 2016. it has made this attempt three times since november, but there has been consternation about whether we see the rally continue in asian stocks today. i want to check a stock in hong k

well i think for all astronaut sophie the experience is so fantastic and so richard so different that you try and share it any way you can on my first space flight all i had was ham radio amateur radio and a film camera so it's really hard to share but i might third space flight as you say when i was commanding the international space station we had internet or at least primitive but but internet on the space station and digital cameras and high speed video and so i could share the experience like never before and the reaction as you say was huge i think it's too good an experience too to just keep to yourself white said the guitar he used to play space out of the onboard the i assess was put on board the station by the psychological team what for i mean how did the guitar help you in space just saying take your mind off work. when i was on board. on space station mir in one thousand nine hundred ninety five there was a guitar on mir made in st petersburg and when i played that guitar upon media i realize just how how important and warm and human that music is and i think the nasa psy

sophie: asian stocks are sinknig. 1.5 percent. that dropped for the s&p 500.he was falling. the asx 200 easing the decline, but still on the back foot, down .8%, while the kospi is dropping for the first day this week. we are dealing with a summer volume, late trading here. while the barcelona attack along with concerns of gary cohn leaving the trump administration , there may not be reason for this selloff, and for the recent volatility. we have the looming question of an eventual correction may transpire. we have other items on the agenda to look too. we have china's july property prices, plus malaysia and taiwan are to report earnings. lenovo reporting as well. we do have electronic makers and banks dragging when it comes to the tokyo session. the topics falling for a third straight day. japanese stocks might be primed for gains. risen 27 percent on year, continuing a trend of gradual increases. it can see that with a line in blue. looking at movers in toto, i want to show you chip equipment makers after -- electronic with a long-term view. in light of geop

yvonne: sophie, thank you.ce per hash predicted communist party meeting. marketsg's global editor m o'brien joins us now. -- emma, is it, risk?headline are there in analyses getting us ready and trying to tell us the trigger in the markets? emma: i am sure we will definitely get a lot of that, but in terms of what could happen in the markets, i think it will be more of the same. that is a steady, almost be thatl -- almost eerie calm has been engineered by beijing. they do not want any surprises, mood any speculation that could lead to a collapse. 2014.ng like we saw with things will be steady as she goes, and we are likely to see a continuation in the gains in the yuan we have seen. it is in a 14 month high. well on the mainland showing a bit of a recovery over the last couple of months. trying to catch up with what we have seen with stocks trading in hong kong. yvonne: as china aims at being a global economic, financial powerhouse, certainly stepping up their markets into the modern world is part of that. i am

sophie, a rebound from yesterday's risk obsession. sophie: recovery from the selloff on tuesday.aysian stocks not joining that upturn. set for a second day of losses. elsewhere, japanese stocks leading gains, up .6%. drops snapping a two day for the nikkei. haven plays falling out of favor, the yen edging towards 110, bonds falling, treasury butds closer to 2.15%, other movers, the aussie dollar climbing. even as iron ore is living, the currency holding above key trendline support ahead of data at the bottom of the hour. made move asaussie it is expected to weaken. doingwhat the yuan is today. the offshore rate on a back foot after a 10 day rally, but the broke through a key level for the first time since june 2016 this week. , capitaliquidity flows, and a weaker dollar helping to spur the yuan has sent, a largely one-way path, which has confounded forecasters and is a problem for bears. saying thisbull rally is set to continue. i look for resilience for shanghai stocks. 2015 highs.r the fibonacci analysis pointing to a break out. 1481 on the terminal shows it has broken above th

sophie, barely any gains for the msci asia-pacific. a lot of the markets right now in the red. >> just hanging on. of data points this morning that could be perceived as disappointing, for example chinese trade figures and we arepressure, seeing a drop in sydney and tokyo, the nikkei 225 down a third of a percent while the yen is a 10th of a percent higher to trade stronger for the first day against the dollar. we do have the housing swinging to gains, set for a third day higher. tencent is leading in hong kong, along with this 23 year high. we did have another data point today, chinese retail sales rising 5.5% on year. they continue the momentum. and take a look at this, a little change well be won is rising, despite some political risk. it's looking to change ahead of inflation data later this afternoon. one winner today is the yuan, earlier extending gains against the dollar, just below that level now for the first time since october. the dollar snaps it to do again amid dovish comments from fed officials ahead of the meeting. >> so

and tough for sophie hitchon in the hammer final. margin.ne stage in the first round. the crowd loved it. i thought, come on, the crowd wants it. you don't just thought, come on, the crowd wants it. you don'tjust turn up and compete, you train all year. everything has to be completely right on the night. if you don't get a medal, you are heartbroken. but next issue will come back bigger and better and stronger. you have heard about the gastroenteritis that has got around. some athletes have been affected. as a former athlete yourself, when you are dealing with diarrhoea and vomiting, how does that affect you? it affects everything, not just that affect you? it affects everything, notjust physically but psychologically as well. the human body, everything has to be perfect when you come to a championships. you have to get back on board and keep everything down. but psychologically, you go to the next race and you know you are not 100% perfect. you don't know the effect it will have on the performance. the last thing you want to have is a tiny

that's go over -- let's go over to sophie. sophie: check that was going on with chinese stocks. index aiming about a 10th of a percent following monday's rise in over 1%. hong kong shares popping almost half a percent today. rise, above the 27,000 level adding to gains on monday. we are seeing a continuous rise higher when it comes to the equity rally. check out what's going on in the currency space. particularly the yuan. we saw it go below the contrary i attended a percent following the weaker reference rate from the pboc. in first time it is weaker six days. offshore rate hovering around 6.69. we had the yuan weaker. the dollar is firming up ahead of the new york chief saying he does see a rate hike potentially this year. that is putting a move in the .urrency markets to 10th of ap percent. the korean won is higher first in straight game. given the dollar strengthening of late, our editors are cautioning the potential move higher could drag on asian stocks. there are some signals that after a five-month slifer the dollar, -- slide for the dollar, it could continue a recovery

javier: sophie, thank you very much for the analysis. that's all from the business desk.to sarah to continue our coverage of breaking news from france. sarah: let's go straight to paris where police say eight-year-old girl has been killed after a driver ran to his car into a pizza restaurant. at least five others were injured in this incident which took place in a small town east of paris. officials say the driver was arrested soon after the incident. is unclear whether this act was deliver it. afp citing police sources to say this appears to be deliberate but it does not have any connection with a terrorist. for context, in france last week an algerian man drove his car into a group of french soldiers in paris. over a year ago a truck attack in the city of nice killed 86. lisa lewis joins us now on the line. can you give us any more information about this deadly attack that left an eight-year-old girl dead? lisa: the information we are hearing is slightly confusing. some reports say the dead girl is eight years old, other sources say she was 13 years old. we are hearing

let's bring in sophie for a check on the market. sophie: we do have japanese markets catching up.th korean coffee -- with the cost be -- kospi. we are seeing a gauge and pricing decline about 11%. the backe the yen on foot slipping today. gold is falling 1/10 of 1%. with the yen looking weaker for the first session of five, that is not helping the nikkei falling 1%. the outlier train -- trading the lowest. we take a look at the break down by segment, we are seeing lots of over 1% for most of the sectors in tokyo. health care at 1.4% lower there. volatility is staying elevated for japanese stock. let's show you some of the movers in tokyo. that is a bright spot, rising the highest in over a year after registering record sales in the first half. we have holdings sliding. it is one of japan's three biggest dealmaker's. kosmos energy is jumping. .t was raised trading about 11% higher this morning. -- let's take a look at what is going on with the coin. -- bitcoin. it is continuing to soar, adding twits rise. 20% since wednesday. betty: think is a much. -- thank you so much. trying to

sophie, thank you so much. sophie kamaruddin was an early look at the markets.ays its latest missile test was "a meaningful prelude to containing the u.s. territory." andu.s. territory of guam more launches would follow. president trump said all options remain open in response to the missile firing over japan. is in tokyo for us. steve, it seems like north korea has the upper hand. they seem to have had the upper hand for a while in their estimation. bannon,ourse, steve after he left the white house, he said, "look, they have us." you have those millions of people living in seoul in the artillery range. they have capabilities, supposedly, that could reach not only guam, but to the west coast of the united states. we have a test firing of a boasted missile yesterday morning that flew over one of the main islands of japan, hokkaido, to the north. there is a sense of calm here. keep in mind, kim jong-un has conducted 80 plus missile and nuclear test since taking over from his father. that is more than twice as many as his father and grandfather conducted combined.

betty: thank you so much, sophie kamaruddin on the markets.he inflation numbers. we are also watching another story. u.s. authorities are set to rule on a chinese bid to buy the chicago stock exchange with a decision from the fcc expected later today. tom mackenzie joining us now from beijing. who is trying to buy the exchange and why is there this controversy? tom: it is a chinese firm leading this bed. interestingly, their business here is focused on real estate and sewage treatment plants. what they want to do with the exchange in chicago is use it to help chinese companies list in the u.s.. say think and their backers it would help breathe life into the chicago stock exchange, which deals with volumes of less than .5% of all trading volumes in the u.s. of ipos int listings the u.s. have been falling off over the last two decades, so proponents say it could help boost the number of ipos in the u.s. detractors include a number of representatives in the house and president trump himself, who hit out against this deal on the campaign trail. he

let's get it over to sophie.g seng opening in , i.t.een, higher by .8% gaining over 2%, energy gaining 1.7%, so playing catch-up, and looking at gains this morning. a second day higher. to point out that although this index is headed for its eighth

sophie hitchon looking forward to the women's hammerfinal.nze last year. but that contest will be keenly contested. the polish thrower is fantastic in this event, the 0lympic is fantastic in this event, the olympic champion, the world record—holder, but she is the strong favourite. but every chance sophie hitchon can get a medal in that as well. we are looking forward to seeing the british team captain, eilidh doyle, in the 400 metres hurdles. there will be heat in that. let's hear from the british team captain now. you look at races over the season and there has been a different winner in the diamond lake. i have beaten these girls and one week and they have beaten me the next and it is very open in that sense. that is the hurdles. if you get it right, you can nail it. but if you hit a hurdle, it can have an effect on how you perform. it is so wide open but there are so many of us wide open but there are so many of us running so well. you could go there and rana and ran a pb and it might not even ta ke and ran a pb and it might not even take

hello welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze a world that's dependent on oil gas and coal is becoming a thing of the past with renewal energy becoming cheaper and more widespread every year. but is solar and wind power as reliable as it is clean well we talked to mean the director general of the international renewable energy agency. a warming planet and the drive to curb pollution is giving the new book energy a book just as we search for a way to shake off our fossil fuel addiction completely renewable energy has become more affordable than ever and so will our reliance on extracting fossil fuels slowly become a thing of the past how reliable is solar wind hydro for joe.

hello welcome to sophie and komi sophie shevardnadze a world that's dependent on oil gas and coal is becoming a thing of the past was renewable energy becoming cheaper and more widespread every year. but is solar and wind power as reliable as it is clean well we talked to mean the director general of the international renewable energy agency. a warming planet and the drive to curb lucian is giving renewable energy as from search for a way to shake off our fossil fuel.

christoph: sophie, thank you.w york over the russian capital moscow, and an experiment where no one is in the driver seat. two local automotive manufacturers are teaming up to create an autonomous van big enough to seat up to one dozen passengers and replace minibus taxis that play a key role in russia's public transportation system. reporter: this prototype driverless van may look slow and ungainly, but it is being made ready to take to the public streets in 2020. for now it is being tested in a closed off technology park in moscow where engineers have located city streets -- replicated city streets in an industrial plant. >> the technology park created this road for testing. here it is all possible. we can use it around the clock in any conditions. summer, winter, during the day, and at night. reporter: electric van uses cameras to follow a route instead of the expensive light detection sensors used in western autonomous vehicles. >> it knows the route in matches with what it sees in front of itself just as a re

let's get to sophie kamaruddin.ock markets are helping lift returns at mega hedge funds including bison global investors and renaissance to allergy. according to a person with knowledge, and investor documenting, viking and an equity -- equity funding quantitive are up more than 9% through july. stepackman took the next in his campaign to shakeup outsourcing giant automatic data nominating three directors to the company's board, including himself. cushing square capital management said it owned about 8% of gdp, also nominated veronica hennigan and paul on rock. an employeeired that wrote a memo blasting its diversity policy. the engineer who wrote the note confirms his dismissal, saying he had been fired for " perpetuating gender stereotypes." asked about the dismissal, representative or for doing email that said portions of the memo violated the company's code of conduct that is not safe action was being taken against the employee. on bloomberghat technology, facebook ceo oh -- coo discusses company culture and glo

sophie hitchens, laura muir... target of six to eight, we would have three or four in the bag by now. there are not that many more medal chances left. it is not going to plan but it is the world championships, sport is brittle and it is a reminder of that. it is not going to plan but what can we expect tonight? just the one briton going in a final tonight, the 800 metres. he won an impressive semifinal. he has nothing to lose. this is the first major final for him and he will want to impress in front of the home support. the team captain for the british team is on tonight and also before hundred metres hurdles. athletics fans are infora metres hurdles. athletics fans are in for a treat because the world champion, the olympic champion in the 400 metres will also be in action. lots to look forward to on the tractor night. thank you very much. —— on the track tonight. she is suffering from a side strain and so will not be part of the team on thursday. it is thaw she will recover in time. it is set to be the biggest wo

well i think for all astronaut sophie the experience is so fantastic it's so richard so different that you try and share it any way you can on my first space flight all i had was ham radio amateur radio and a film camera so it's really hard to share but i might third space flight as you say when i was commanding the international space station we had internet or at least primitive but but internet on the space station and digital cameras and high speed video and so i could share the experience like never before and the reaction as you say was huge i think it's too good an experience too to just keep to yourself white said the guitar he used to play space oddity on board the i assess was put on board the station by the psychological team what for i mean how did the guitar help you in space just saying take your mind off work. when i was on board stanzi mia on space station mir in one thousand nine hundred ninety five there was a guitar on mir made in st petersburg and when i played that guitar upon media i realize just how how important and warm and human that music is and i think the n

let's get it over to sophie with the open up markets. mixed. .4%re seeing a gain of over , adding to the gains on friday. the hang seng is up .3% after rising for a fourth session, so despite the gloomy weather and on theng, the hang seng up. the hong kong dollar falling, the biggest drop since july 3. still trading at january 2016 low. as you pointed out, or stronger fixing for the yuan from the pboc. the onshore rate just below that 64 handle, and the offshore yuan is set for a ninth straight day of gains. moving inn what is hong kong, energy shares leading the gains, up .8%, most sectors in the green. just utility seeing slight losses there. when it comes to the energy space, moves and the like of cnooc. i'll pull up the board to show you those players. sinopec also moving this morning. afteres were cut to hold its results, moving on change right now. aac tech jumping, set to close at a record high. and call options surging for the stock. jeffries,upgrade from morgan stanley, and cc ic. after a jump in earnings and announcing a specia

. >> reporter: sophie and her twin sister have been competitive since birth. >> two minutes.whole minutes. she can never get that over me. >> reporter: in june, the rising sophomores decided to take the a.c.t. >> we just wanted to go to bed and see what happened. >> reporter: when the scores came, sophie checked hers first. >> i saw 36 and i was completely shocked and happy. >> and i was even more nervous than ever because now i'd have to get at least a 36 to match up with her. >> reporter: and she did. a.c.t. officials say about 2 million students took the test last year. of that, about 2,000 got a perfect score. that puts percentile. >> amazing. it's amazing. >> reporter: teachers at sacred heart say the two have always been connected. >> one would start to answer, the other one could finish the answer. >> i wouldn't call it telepathy but we always pretty much know what the other one is thinking. >> reporter: their advice isn't new. take practice tests. >> focus on those areas that can really bring up your composite score overall. >> reporter: the girls play tennis and enjo

sophie hutchinson, bbc news.who she said had groped her at a 2013 concert. his claim for damages, on the grounds that his reputation had been destroyed by false allegations, was thrown out. just to warn you peter bowes report from los angeles, does contain flash photography. a high—profile trial pitting one of the world's most recognisable pop stars against a local dj. when david muellerfrom denver lost his job, he blamed taylor swift for ruining his career. the singer's mother and manager had contacted his radio station bosses to report that he'd groped the singer at a photo shoot. he sued swift for $3 million. she countersued for the assault, describing it in court as a very long grab under her skirt. it was a shocking thing that she had never experienced before, she said. last week, thejudge threw out his lawsuit, saying the dj had not shown that swift personally set out to have him fired. but her case against him continued, thejury sided with the pop—star. she had been assaulted, and in keeping with her wishe

sophie long reports.velled to milan for a photoshoot but it was bogus and the young woman was abducted and held here, an abandoned shop on the outskirts of the city. italian police say the 20—year—old british model was attacked and robbed by two people. translation: the victim was doped with ketamine, then she was locked in a bag and carried for hours in a car. think what could have happened if she suffered from asthma. it's thought that she was bundled into the boot of this vehicle. they believe she was taken to a remote mountain cottage, near turin, and say she spent much of her week—long ordeal handcuffed to a chest of drawers. her kidnapper is alleged to have tried to sell her for sex on the internet and demanded a ransom of nearly £250,000. but after six days she was released and taken to the british consulate in milan. this man, lukasz herba, a 30—year—old polish national living in britain, has been arrested by italian police. the foreign office here say they are providing consular support of a brit