They said it was catastrophic its catastrophic. Its overwhelming, ive been crying all morning. A warning that one in five people struggling with debt, has had their credit card limit raised without asking. And has the new recipe worked . We find out what viewers and critics made of the first bake off since its move to channel 4. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, two days left of the transfer window and arsenal still have unresolved business over Alex Oxlade Chamberlain and their star player, alexis sanchez. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Is north korea says its firing of a blistered missile over japan is north korea says its firing of a blistered missile overjapan is the first step of military operations in the pacific. The United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned north koreas firing of a Ballistic Missile overjapan. The diplomatic unease coincides with theresa mays visit to japan. Shes urged china to put more pressure on north korea to stop i
Which has caused such devastation in texas, is now heading towards neighbouring louisiana. Record amounts of rainfall have fallen across the region. Large parts of houston the countrys fourth largest city are still under water. More than 20 people have died and nearly 200,000 people have registered for financial help. Laura trevelyan is in houston now. Welcome to houston and you can see behind me the chaos that the catastrophic flooding has caused in the aftermath of hurricane harvey. As you can see people have had to abandon their homes, abandoned their cars. These are extraordinary scenes and just this morning i witnessed dramatic rescues, people have come from all over texas and even alt of texas with boats just to try to do whatever they can in the face of this extraordinary situation. The flooding behind me has been worsened, we are in houston where reservoirs on the outskirts are full to capacity and they have been overspending. The authorities have had to do a timed release of w
In venezuela has voted to put opposition leaders on trial for treason. This is the assembly that elected in a vote that opposition voters boycotted. Among the accused are the Louisa Ortega she was chief prosecutor before being sacked. A major critic of the government. One of the members of this assembly has called her scum. Also, head of the opposition controlled parliament, julio borges. Here is his reaction to these accusations the only one responsible is maduro and its time he takes a look in the mirror and accepts he has ruined venezuela. This is the reaction of the un high commissionerfor human rights. With respect to maduro, the president was elected by the people. But since then, there has been an erosion of democratic life. Very clearly, as was pointed out, he and his colleagues have noted the wave of repression. It must be barely alive, if still alive, of repression. It must be barely alive, if stillalive, is of repression. It must be barely alive, if still alive, is the way i
And i think thats probably a good principle. But the issue is, that should not trump whats necessary to do given the fact that isis represents a new organization with new leadership, a new vision in terms of its global and regional strategy and that it is a barbaric organization committing genocide, assassination, enlavement and raping of women, as we all know and that it is fully intent on conducting a religious war based on their ideology. And we cannot let the Rearview Mirror of iraq and afghanistan so disincentivize us to deal with the reality of what this is. And im convinced that the American People, when we inform them and we educate them and we take them through this, i mean i dealt with the bush administration, they never truly explained what radical islam is and why its so dangerous. We never took apart the ideology. We never truly fashioned a strategy to deal with it in a comprehensive way and here we sit with the same problem today. I think thats a great point and something
Belts on the bus . Good evening, im tom llamas. We begin with a fierce blast of winter. A night of cutting winds and dangerous cold still ahead for millions. Heavy snow from north dakota to maine, 27 states feeling the wrath of winter this weekend. Boston, with its snowiest month on record. Powerful winds blowing across the country. Listen to this. Nearly 40 miles an hour here in michigan, and on this long holiday weekend, multivehicle pileups, delays and cancellations on rails and flights. This special system clearing the tracks in boston. And while the center of this storm is moving out, a new storm is coming to the south. With more than 100 million in its path. That forecast in a moment. But first, rob marciano starts us off. Rob . Reporter the winds are blowing in boston. And when it hit the atlantic last night, rapidly intensified, once again bringing blizzard conditions. To the new england coast. Yet another big storm barreling through new england. Theres a little bit of deja vu