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Of congo. The World Health Organization sees it as an emergency. There is enough being done . Thousands of residents are told to leave their homes in derbyshire over fears a huge dam is about to burst. There is a one in three chance that the uk will be plunged into recession even if the government secures a brexit deal. Governor of the bank of england mark carney said today that in the event of a no deal brexit sterling would slide further and Interest Rates would have to rise. The bank has also downgraded forecasts for this year and 2020. Looking through these temporary factors the underlying pace of growth has slowed to below the potential rate as a result of weaker Global Demand and more entrenched uncertainty about brexit amongst uk companies. There are a number of reasons for flat growth in this the second quarter. Economic growth acts slowed across the world in the last 18 months. Spending by uk companies has fallen over the last three quarters. Things like factories, machinery, vehicles, it, software. Until the brexit fog clears there is little the bank can do in terms of future planning. Along came some friendly advice today from Donald Trumps former adviser, who has been speaking to our north america editor. Any forward progress at this point is good. This is another one of those economic geopolitical situations that has to be solved. If it is hard, soft, it has to be solved. What tends to happen as countries are more resilient than people think. Britain should not be frightened of eight no deal brexit . It is better than where you are now. As he writes that no deal is better than endless prolonged uncertainty chris wright he is wrong. No deal as a crystallisation of the bad economic outcome is not preferable to the possibility of a better economic outcome. We will speak to the bbc economics editor. I was reading your article today, you set out that here is the bank of england is going through that brexit fog and ina way is going through that brexit fog and in a way pulling into the lay by and waiting to see what happens. Yes, that is because what else can it do . You have this binary situation as mark carney described it, where he sees quite profound different economic path is if there isa different economic path is if there is a deal, also known as a softer brexit, a transition, specifically that last two or three years, that is rather different to a sudden World Trade Organisation terms with no transition deal, tariffs, a clear adjustment to sterling. You have this binary role. How will you project what is going to happen . That is difficult. He admitted that these thick pages of numbers about exactly where things go is itself inconsistent because they have had to assume, because they follow government policy essentially, there is going to be a smooth brexit, but all that markets numbers from the Government Bond numbers to that currency markets, that saw sterling fall by 7 across a broad range of currencies, they assume 40 chance of no deal, it is rising as the days go on. There is a certain lack of coherence even within this forecast. The government today pledged an extra £2. 1 billion to planning for eight no deal brexit. Under that bank of england scenario are there better or worse versions of eight no deal scenario . In other words, better or worse versions of eight no dealscenario . In otherwords, can this 2. 1 billion mitigate some of the damaging long Term Economic effects of living without a deal . Mitigation is exactly the word. We hear from the government, from ministers, yes we are prepared and ready, but i think what they mean by thatis ready, but i think what they mean by that is that they have done all that they can to dry to mitigate some of they can to dry to mitigate some of the impacts of tariffs on exports that have not even been checked for decades. That does not mean that the issues, problems, potential delays, the chances of that have been eliminated. What you are seeing is some money, not all of it entirely new it has to be said, being used in order to try to smooth that over. But also they have had to re spend money that they spent the last time there was a no deal brexit deadline, on things like ferry capacity for emergency medical supplies if necessary , emergency medical supplies if necessary, they have had to spend that again because contracts have run out. Well thats mean zero disruption for no deal . That seems unlikely. It is not entirely in the hands of the government, it depends on the readiness of traders. It is this sort of preparation that the governor of the bank of england hopes will help him help the economy in no deal by cutting Interest Rates. We will look at some of that and see whether it does mitigate, later in the programme. Democratic frontrunner joe the programme. Democratic frontrunnerjoe biden came under sustained assault from the other candidates in the second round of debates in detroit but the former Vice President was not the only one out under attack, and other candidates was criticised. Both frontrunners defended themselves well enough to stay in themselves well enough to stay in the top tier but the performances we re the top tier but the performances were not stellar. Some democrats are worried that the party is hurting itself more than donald trump in these debates. It was notjust candidates on stage that were suffering, there was also criticism of former democratic president , obama. The former attorney general gave a swift response. You have just come you havejust come back you have just come back from detroit. We have had two rounds of debates, all candidates have been up there twice. We are is the party . Two sets of debates. The fields will now be cut by half as we move into september because that requirements are much more stringent. You have to have 2 in four surveys and 130,000. This was a big deal. This is the last you will see of ten candidates. At the end of today, joe biden is still the frontrunner. Last night he did what he needed to do. Everybody went after him. Withering attacks. He took those hits and he gave them back. Senator harris, she got attacked on her record as a prosecutor. The winner of the debates was Elizabeth Warren over at the two nights. She was upbeat, she had plans. A lot of people see her plans are not realistic, medicare for all, the new green deal, but in those two debates she had a good night. Joe biden is still frontrunner, no doubt about that, he has got to keep that momentum going. Let us look at some of this, the senator harris that came under attack. The bottom line is, senator harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these peoples lives you did not and worshipped in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. It almost seems like she was not expecting to be attacked in that way from that person. There is some discussion amongst democrats today about whether they are doing themselves any favours with these attacks on stage against each other when they should be on donald trump. Yes, iagree, should be on donald trump. Yes, i agree, as a former chairman of Democratic National committee i thought there was a lot of time they we re thought there was a lot of time they were attacking each other. I get thatjoe biden is frontrunner, but attacking senator harris, i could not understand that. But those who went negative last night, they are gone. They will not make the next stage. This was their last gasp at its. Senator harris has continued to move forward. That was a hard hit, one of the tightest hits i have ever seen, to say to the African American community, that there was evidence on death row and nothing was done, thatis on death row and nothing was done, that is devastating. Joe biden took a lot of hits, he deflected them, he is still frontrunner. I am still confident that we will beat donald trump. I remind you, three states, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, we lost by 77,000 votes combined, there were 92 million americans who voted in 2016, the next year in virginia, the biggest wins in 140 yea rs, last year we virginia, the biggest wins in 140 years, last year we won the congress with biggest pick up since 1974, we have seven new governors and eight state legislators, trump will have a ha rd state legislators, trump will have a hard time winning again, he is at 40, 40 hard time winning again, he is at 40,40 2 , he hard time winning again, he is at 40, 40 2 , he antagonises everybody. I talked about in my book how he came as an unadulterated racist and white supremacist and that does not sell in this country. You mentioned thatjoe biden put in a better performance last night, by public consensus he faltered in the first debate. Let us watch a bit of last night. It looks like one of ours has learned the lessons of the past and one of us has not. You want to be president of the United States you need to answer the tough questions. If you are debating donald trump he will not let you off the hook. You cannot have it both ways. You invoke barack obama cannot have it both ways. You invoke ba rack obama three cannot have it both ways. You invoke barack obama three more than anyone else, you cannot do it when it is convenient. What do you make of that last point . The fact that he invokes former president obama. Obama care is popular with most democrats in the country, is it a wise strategy for democrats to go after him on that record . I do not think so. You make a very important point. The first hour, the attacks were obama policies, deportation and obama care, president obama today has 93 Approval Rating with the Democratic Party in america, therefore it was foolish to go Afterjoe Biden attacking president obamas policies. My guess is in the next couple of days we will seejoe biden has gone up in the surveys. Those who spent time attacking will pay that price. I would also say, we as democrats have got to make sure that we will attack donald trump, not fellow democrats, we can beat trump but we need a unified message, the last couple of debates americans are confused. Medicare for all . Are you taking my health care . We need a better, more crisp message. We win on health care in america talking about that issue and we do not play on Donald Trumps staff, hate and divisiveness. You have written a book about race and racism in the country, in the presidency. When the democrats are talking about race and racism does that help them or not . Trump has gone off the rails in the last couple of weeks with congressman attacking the squad seeing, go home. Charlottesville, i was governor then. I opened the book up, i called donald trump, i tell the president i have neo nazis spewing the most vile things i have ever heard against a fellow human being, telling members of thejewish faith we will burn them. Unbelievable. I told the president , come out, you need to show leadership of our states, our country, the world. He field that day. He came out that the ad said there were five people on both sides. I was there. They were not five people on the neo nazi side, with their swastikas, they killed a 32 year old that day. Donald trump should have shown that he was the world leader. Obama did it in charleston, george bush did it. Donald trump field that day. No doubt Elizabeth Warren had a good couple of days but she is 20 points behind joe biden. I do not think he will really ta ke biden. I do not think he will really take it to donald trump. I was also watching it. It was almost three hours long last night and there were repeated moments when joe biden seem to get distracted or hesitated or hesitated too long or got convoluted in his speech, loss of strain of thought a little bit. I did start wondering whether seeing him at the gates donald trump on a debate stage was an increasingly tricky matchup for him. Donald trump of course reverses his position and says things that are not true sometimes but he does it with such stunning confidence, and that, against a hesitant person, might makejoe against a hesitant person, might make joe biden look against a hesitant person, might makejoe biden look a little bit less ready for thejob. Hamza bin laden was being groomed to take over the leadership of alanda. Such was his prominence within the organisation that the state department announced in february it was offering a one Million Dollar bounty for any information on his whereabouts. But if the reporting here in the United States is correct, osama bin ladens son is dead. Most probably he was killed in a us drone strike, somewhere in the rugged borderlands between pakistan and afghanistan the circumstances still unclear. Theres been no confirmation from the pentagon. But plenty of chatter it seems among known members of alanda. With me is mina al lami from bbc monitoring. So far alqaeda has not said anything on claims of the death of hamza bin laden. So far there has been no conversation from alanda. It could be fake news, it is being said, it could be a way for Us Intelligence to get information based on chatter online. So far they are not sure and they are treating it with caution. The leadership of alqaeda is very old. Here you had a 30 alqaeda is very old. Here you had a 30 odd year old man, presumably he would rally the troops, in recent yea rs would rally the troops, in recent years they have somewhat been supplanted by Islamic State. Look at the timing of the emergence of hamza bin laden in 2015. That was when the so called Islamic State was at the height in terms of its so called caliphate, grabbing headlines and recruits, al can use it was on the back foot. Islamic state leadership called alqaeda leadership senile and out of touch. Alqaeda was hoping to inject a new face, hoping to appeal to young recruits, of course try to capitalise on that legacy bin laden. Reports of a bouncy, but he might are ready have been dead. March 2018, in contrast to successive messages issued, 12 m essa g es successive messages issued, 12 messages between 2015 and 2018, then he went quiet. Even alqaeda members have not said anything about why he was quiet. It is a bit suspicious that that silence was for some time. There are reports that suggest that news of his death is not fresh, that he had been dead for a while. Thank you. More than 6000 people have been told to leave their homes in derbyshire after heavy rain caused part of a dam to collapse. Officials fear the reservoir wall could collapse, and are telling residents to head to a local school for their safety. The Environment Agency has warned that there is a danger to life. Judith moritz reports from the scene. This dam is the only Thing Holding back toddbrook reservoir from Whaley Bridge. Its protected the town for nearly 200 years. Now, its dangerously close to bursting. Heavy rain has damaged the dam. Engineers are trying to pump water from the reservoir, but if the wall collapses, it could swamp the town centre below. Whaley bridge is now deserted. Residents were told to get out as fast as possible. Some say they didnt even have time to pack a bag. Many have been sent to a high school in neighbouring chapel en le frith. Theyve been told to prepare to be away from their houses for several days. I finished my shift at two oclock, drove back down to Whaley Bridge to go home and the Police Stopped me and said, you cannot go into the village. I said, but im a resident, i need to get home. He said, no. I said, my partners at home with the dog, and he said, ring him and just tell him to get out. The school is also being used as a muster point for the Emergency Services and the local council. The police have taken over evacuating Whaley Bridge and done an absolutely superb job. Got about 85 of the people out already. Theres obviously one or two people who dont want to leave and are refusing to leave. But we know where they are if theres a problem. Engineers are assessing the damage but its a race against time and the elements. They need to draw down water to reduce the risk. The ground in the area is saturated, the rain continues to fall and the reservoir was already full. Something which has always been seen as a local attraction and beauty spot suddenly poses a real mortal danger. Iran says the United States is acting in a childish way by imposing sanctions on its foreign minister, Mohammad Javad zarif. The sanctions imposed on wednesday freeze any us assets held by mr zarif he says he has none. Washington will also seek to curtail his international travel, although he will still be able to travel to the United Nations in new york. Hundreds of russian towns and cities are shrouded in heavy smoke from wildfires in siberia and the far east. More than 30,000 square kilometers are on fire, with the vast majority in areas that are hard to reach and where potential damage is likely to be less than the cost of fighting them. The russian president , vladimir putin, has called in the army to fight the forest fires. Roads have been closed, Rail Services cancelled and homes flooded as severe downpours affect large areas of the north of england. 19mm of rain fell in the north west in eight hours on wednesday, on top of heavy rain that hit the region and the midlands as weve been reporting earlier in the week. Flood warnings are still in place. Yes, the flooding is pretty bad in some parts of the country at the moment. But spare a thought for those people in other countries where it is not only the flooding they have to worry about. But the crocodiles. This is the city of vadodara in gujarat state. Which is why, when you are covering these stories, you dont do this. Who did the Risk Assessment . Where is the mic lead . I dont speak urdu but i think he is saying it is deep. That is some dedication to the job i know that you are the intrepid reporter. It was the way he was holding the microphone above the water line. He needs a promotion and a pay rise. As we discussed last night, these live televised debates can be a test of stamina. Especially so forjoe biden, who spent most of his time last night fending off attacks while trying to promote his vision for 2020. So by the time he got to the end of this three hour marathon, there was perhaps a feeling of relief the hard bit was behind him. Or was it . Here he is with a final thought for supporters on how they could donate through a text number. A text numberjoe, not a website if you agree with me go tojoe, 3300, thank you very much. He did by the way say a couple of hours ago if theres one thing he would have done differently last night it would be to say, text. The internet of course had a field day with this one. Many people tried searching for the Website Online but campaigns and pranksters had beat them to it. Buying up domain names and redirecting people all over the place to a real estate site. This does make him look out of touch, he does not know the difference between a text and a website. One other. Zero tolerance policy of stop and frisk. 2007. You do not even know the flavour. That was a new one on me. I not even know the flavour. That was a new one on me. I knew not even know the flavour. That was a new one on me. I knew about the drink, the flavour . This is beyond 100 days from the bbc. Coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news its one year since the first ebola case in the democratic republic of congo 1800 people have died. Well hear what can stop the spread. And as the us china trade war is forcing americans into foodbanks heavy and at times thundery area in the manchester area and the derbyshire peaks. The manchester area and the derbyshire pea ks. There the manchester area and the derbyshire peaks. There are still a number of rain warnings, one severe warning in derbyshire. Rain in the nearby hills filtering into River Systems, leading to flooding. And here, there has been 1. 5 months worth of rain in the last week which has led to flooding. Further south we have seen has led to flooding. Further south we have seen more has led to flooding. Further south we have seen more in the way of sunshine. Few if any showers across more southern parts of england and into wales. Further north, showers will tend to decay over the next few hours and most places will be dry over night. Misty over eastern parts of england and scotland. Start with some sunshine in many places tomorrow. Cloud will tend to increase as temperatures rise and the chance of catching some showers also. In the afternoon and again mainly in the same sort of areas. Scotland, northern england, the midlands. There are not many of them. More places will have a dry day and it may feel warmer in the sunshine. A small start a small chance of a shower for edgbaston. Into the weekend, another area of low pressure. That will head across the uk next week, it is pushing in these weather fronts. Most places will have a dry stack to the weekend. Light showers towards western parts. Temperatures again holding steady. The second half of the weekend gets wetter in the north west in particular. Rain may be heavy and thundery across scotland, fat north of england. Further south and east it is likely to be drier, may stay completely dry and the south east of england and east anglia. Temperatures may get as high as 27 or 28 celsius. This is beyond 100 days. With me katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The uk injects two point £1 billion into no deal brexit preparations while the the bank of england warns that leaving without a deal will hit the economy and the pound. Democratic hopefuljoe biden fends off attacks from all sides in the second round of the 2020 president ial debates. As the us china trade war intensifies, faith in tariffs could be faltering as americans at home are being squeezed on everyday items. The child is telling you they are still hungry, that hurts a lot to because that makes me cry. Plus the secrets to a long life from this 107 year old who has one crucial bit of advice. The uk government is turbo boosting, their words, the preparations for a no deal brexit on october 31st. The chancellor sajid javid today made an additional £2. 1 billion available for contingency no deal planning which he says will be spent on ensuring the uk is ready to leave the eu in three months time come what may. £344 million of that will go to ramping up border and customs operations. £434 million will go to ensuring a continuous supply of vital medicines can reach those who need them. And £138 million will be spent on a Public Information campaign to support uk citizens both at home and abroad. Joining us now is tom harwood reporter for the guido fawkes site and Maya Goodfellow journalist and academic. How feasible is it to spend such a large amount of money in a short space of time . If we contextualise the amount of money being spent, £2 billion, it is 10 of our annual debit to the eu, which is £20 billion per year, so it is comparatively small to get out of the eu, rather than the 20 billion per year we spend every single year for being a member. It seems like a prudent and sensible thing to do to prepare for the eventuality of nor deal, which the government says it doesnt want to deliver, it would like a deal, but at the end of the day the only way you can ensure you get a deal that will pass parliament is saying youre ready to walk away if there is no satisfactory deal on offer. It is right to plan for every eventuality. I think you have to think about the failure of the conservative party to get any consensus. I think the idea that no deal should be a political possibility, there is a problem with the Prime Minister saying that. You cannot find a way around the irish backstop. Part of the reason for this huge amount of money, reckless, it is galling to see the government whip out this money after taking so much money away from Public Services for the past nine years. Boris johnson and his cabinet are people who have helped oversee huge cuts to schools, hospitals. Homelessness has more than doubled since 2010. Legal aid, £1 billion was taken out of the budget. One thing people will be incredibly worried about and wondering what the government is doing, is this creates so much uncertainty. It is notjust that no deal needs to be a possibility otherwise the eu will not negotiate. We have no deal now and it is creating even more uncertainty than the past three years, which is bad for Small Businesses and the economy and people going on holiday, their money does not go as far. And the Prime Minister says himself it is only a one in a million chance of no deal. Isnt £2 billion a lot to be spent on someone deal. Isnt £2 billion a lot to be spent on someone that is as slim a chanceis spent on someone that is as slim a chance is that . It is only if we get a deal that doesnt have their anti democratic backstop, something that can pass through parliament, if we prepare for an ordeal. It is basic negotiating. The conservative party when it came to government in 2010 was left with a note from the labour party saying there is no money left. For every £4 the government was spending, it was borrowing £1. Now it is only borrowing £1. Now it is only borrowing one out of every £34 spent. That is shoring up our financial capability. The management over the last nine years means the government can put more money into policing, health care, those issues. That is not how the economy works. We have seen the conservatives take away some of the from some of the poorest in society. If you invest in the economy you increase peoples spending power, investing in infrastructure creates jobs. The economy is one of the Fastest Growing in europe. The way this is being talked about by people who are foreign ordeal, as if everything is going to be fine. Going ahead with an ordeal and potentially doing severe economic damage to the country, it doesnt put to the uk in a good position going forward. The reason why this £2 billion now is so it wants to economic damage, planning so there will not be horrible consequences. If the government were not to plan and spend then we went into no deal then there could be problems. This is not just in the hands of the uk. The bank of england governor said things may mitigate to some degree but to some degree this is going to be up to the french, their custom controls and they could cause us problems in and they could cause us problems in an ideal scenario. There are variables in all situations. Economic actors are usually rational because we could, for example, author of the European Union this mechanism that means whether they consent we can continue trading on the same terms as now as we prepare for our future relationship. So long as the eu agrees. We can offer them that and they might choose to accept it. If they do not and they want to bea it. If they do not and they want to be a hostile foreign power to us, which i think would be pretty extraordinary in terms of their closest trading partner, if they wa nt to closest trading partner, if they want to do that then there are lots of unilateral things to ensure we can get cheaper goods. We can unilaterally lower tariffs and it means cheaper imports. Isnt the problem that the last government was being criticised because it hadnt spent this money, it was behind the eu, and the chancellor didnt want to spend that money, so isnt this just catch up . I think what happened since the referendum as we have seen conservative government not really deal with these negotiations. Theresa may didnt approach this is how she should have. I dont want to rehash the past. We havent spoken much about the irish border. So much of this conversation revolves around that. It should but at the same time it is being obscured. This idea that no deal should be a political possibility, what does it mean for ireland . And that idea from Boris Johnson that the eu must listen and find alternative arrangements, they are living in another world. The point here is notjust attacking the government, it is realising how serious the border is. That is not being engaged. Im sorry we have to leave it there. Im sure we could go a full programme on this one. Rwanda reopened its border with the democratic republic of congo today after closing earlier because of fears of ebola. A third case of ebola was reported today in the city of goma, a tranist city on the border of rwanda and home to two million people. And as we know this virus is deadly. Since the beginning of the outbreak, at least 18 hundred people have died of ebola in the democratic republic of congo. It is now the second deadliest outbreak in history. Our senior africa correspondent, anne soy, reported from the drc when the first cases were detected last year she has returned to the epicenter of the outbreak and sent us this update. It takes a lot to beat ebola. Those who get early treatment have a better chance of survival. At the heart of the outbreak, violence is driving infection. This Treatment Centre was smaller when i was last here six months ago. The expansion shows how big the outbreak has grown. At one point there were no more places here and a lot of the Services Moved to new hotspots but then a ball i came back and now more cases are being reported here daily than any other place. There are lessons to be learned that until there is no more ebola in the region, Health Workers cannot afford to relax. The un says its working intensively to halt any further spread and to understand what steps need to be take, i spoke with Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of health. Rwanda shut its border for a rwanda shut its borderfor a period through the day in order to stop the spread of ebola. It has reopened it. Is that the kind of measure which can stop a virus like this from spreading in the region . Not really andi spreading in the region . Not really and i think that is the reason why they reversed themselves. Sometimes when you close borders you can create more of the difficulty of people trying to surreptitiously get in as opposed to in an open way so i think it was a good choice to walk that decision back. Why is this region are having this particular outbreak at this moment . The problem is that Security Issues are really paramount here and being able to do the kinds of things that you do to essentially get your arms around the outbreak and stop it, and that is getting the contacts. The way to go out into the community, to do the tracing, it is impeded by the violence and lack of security, which is very unique. We have been through other outbreaks in other countries that were difficult but we never had a security issue that god in the way. That is one of the main problem is way. That is one of the main problem is that got in the way. That is one of the main problems. And it seems there is a stigma around the virus because there are reports of people hiding to evade health authorities. I imagine that does not make this easier. It really complicates it a lot because there isa complicates it a lot because there is a mistrust of authority, civil or medical authority, and it is a region of the drc in conflict for some time, a lot of instability, so when you have a medical group are trying to come in and do something for the good of the community, there is often a lot of mistrust that these are outsiders trying to propagate something that they dont want. It is a combination of insecurity regarding violence and a deep rooted lack of trust of authority. Why has it not been possible from a medical perspective to wipe out the ebola virus . Maybe i am being too simplistic but a lot of people ask why we cannot just am being too simplistic but a lot of people ask why we cannotjust get rid of it . It is in the environment, not only in humans. It is in animals, bats, some forest animals. It usually jumps species animals, bats, some forest animals. It usuallyjumps species from animal to human and then you get propagation of human to human spread. I dont think we could com pletely spread. I dont think we could completely eradicate ebola because it is entrenched in the environment in the sense of animals and then it jumps species. One of the things happened which i thinks encouraging is the development of a vaccine during the west african outbreak is being deployed here and we have an ongoing trial of multiple interventions which can be used to treat. There has been considerable advancement in ability to address this from a medical standpoint, but eradication is not going to be on the cards. Donald trump has Just Announced another set of tariffs on china this time its an additional 10 on 300 billion dollars worth of chinese goods. Those are set to come into effect on septemberfirst. The two countries just restarted trade talks in shanghai but the meetings were brief and no swift resolution is in sight. The bbc has been speaking with gary cohn who was Donald Trumps chief economic adviser until he resigned in march last year. Mr cohn says the trade war is backfiring for the us because china is using it to its benefit. I think the trade war was a convenient excuse for china to slow down their overheated economy where real estate prices and everything were getting out of hand and i think President Trump provided that excuse for the chinese. The tit for tat tariffs that china and us have put on each others goods are affecting trade worth hundreds of billions of dollars. In the United States, there are fears those high import taxes will force up prices and hurt some of the worst off families as Chris Buckler reports from maryland. Right across rural america, there are towns where people are struggling to put food on their tables. And families who have no choice but to put their faith in the goodwill of neighbours and strangers. That one. Yes, fresh bread tabathas table is a food bank in western maryland. Many who come here rely on whats handed out to feed not just themselves. Because the grandkids stay at my house most of the time. But also those who depend on them. You still want to be able to give them breakfast, lunch and dinner. And when you cant, and the child is telling you they are still hungry, that hurts. That hurts a lot, because thats the part that makes me cry. That i cant give to them. Ive done, and as a single parent, ive done without so that my kids would have. Its just hard. Its just hard and they are making it harder. Americas economy is doing well. Thats not always obvious in places like smithsburg. And a recent report warned that families should expect to pay another 800 a year on everyday items, because of tariffs on products from china. And even more if they are extended to goods from mexico. President trump has repeatedly claimed that it is the countries who will pay for these import taxes, but that is simply not true, and members of his administration have been forced to admit that it is American Companies who will pay the tariffs and they are likely to pass the cost on to their consumers. This is just one of the warehouses for the Maryland Food bank. Its size gives a sense of their need. And while millions on a low income also get government help, through a Food Stamp Programme known as snap, the Trump Administration is looking at changing the way poverty is measured, which would reduce access to that support. That small change really affects thousands of families, thousands of individuals and, ultimately, thousands of families who are now no longer going to be eligible for some assistance. They now have to find some other way to feed their families. As it is, in the state of maryland alone, there is said to be more than 650,000 people who dont know where their next nutritious meal is coming from. Most of our clients were either a pay cheque away from going under or disaster has hit their family. The need is great. And the danger for mr trump is that his policies and trade wars abroad could have an effect on fortunes at home after american home. Give me some love. I appreciate everything. God bless you. Chris buckler, bbc news, smithsburg in maryland. These new tariffs are expected to hit things like cell phones, toys, childrens clothing, hit things like cell phones, toys, child rens clothing, computers. Those are the everyday things people are buying so in some ways these new ta riffs are buying so in some ways these new tariffs could hit consumers more than the previous tariffs on things like steel and aluminium because this is the kind of thing americans are buying every day. Im sure the president will want to keep an eye on that going into the election campaign. This is beyond 100 days. Still to come. How to live till youre 107. Well hear from the new york woman who knows exactly what not to do if you want to stick around for a century. There has been a significant increase in the number of teenagers going into care in england over the past five years while the number of Young Children being taken into care is falling. Frankie mccamley reports. Why me, why not someone else . Put into ca re why me, why not someone else . Put into care to feel safe, but after being passed between 20 carers, his trust was destroyed. Not much transparency so you think everyone is plotting against you and everyone is plotting against you and everyone is spreading rumours. How did that make you feel . Isolated but no one is there so you end up finding help from your peers and sometimes you find the wrong ones. I got into trouble with the police, social services. A report found there has been an explosion in the number of teenagers going into care in england over the last five years, putting a strain on services. Many have complex expensive needs and are more likely to be move around and can be exposed to criminals. Likely to be move around and can be exposed to criminalslj likely to be move around and can be exposed to criminals. I would represent lots of children who have allegedly committed crimes, that if that same action had happened within a normalfamily that same action had happened within a normal family setting they would never have resulted in the police being brought in. That is then the start of a journey for many who are perhaps more likely to experience it to adult hood. The government says it is investing millions to help protect some of these childrens but for campaigners it is notjust about cash. They want to see a shift in society to get rid of some of those entrenched negative attitudes towards people who have been in care. Orien has travelled the country helping young people in care in their hope others dont experience what he did. Restrictions on wearing full face islamic veils in public have come into force in the netherlands today even though certain authorities including the mayor of amsterdam seem ready to turn a blind eye. Dutch police and transport authorities have also said they dont want to enforce the ban. In theory those caught wearing the full face burka or the niqab which covers all but the eyes, will face fines of up to 415 euros, around 450 dollars for wearing them. The ban also covers crash helmets and ski masks. The netherlands is not the first in europe to introduce such a ban. Denmark, france, austria, bulgaria and belgium already have similar bans in place. And the European Court of human rights has upheld a number of these bans despite claims that it has violated womens rights. Community activist sa har al faifi joins us now from cardiff. Good of you to be with ours. It is an interesting point that despite the fact youre going to tell me it is against womens rights, the European Court of human rights doesnt agree with you. Thank you for having me. I think this ban that took place in the netherlands, not only against womens rights but also undermining our civil liberty is, because what youre doing through this ban is not allowing individuals to express their faith and their identity in the way they want. The ban was not surprising at all because we know that the far right actually are on the rise across europe and the netherlands was not excluded from it. As soon as the band took place in the netherlands, we heard the far right politicians commending the ban, saying it was a historic moment and they say the next step is to ban the hijab. On theissue next step is to ban the hijab. On the issue that it stops religious region, the dutch Prime Minister is adamant that it is religious neutral, it also bans anything which would obscure the face in a public place, ski masks, crash helmets. The helmet and the masks are not religious expressions, they are there to protect you from certain harms. The face veil as an act of devotion for those women who choose to wear it. A lot of those women, including myself, we have no problem to reveal her identity whenever it is needed, whether it is in a bank are at airport checks. We dont have are at airport checks. We dont have a problem with revealing our identity. And yet this took place to prevent women from expressing their faith. But also finding them if they are found wearing it in public. Faith. But also finding them if they are found wearing it in publicm looks like the police and transport authorities arent particularly keen to try to enforce this ban. Give us a practical day to day occurrence. What would it mean for someone in the netherlands who chose to wear a hijab and they were given a ban, would they take it off are just not go out . It is refreshing to see that the transport and Police Forces are not taking this seriously. The police said if they were to take it seriously it means those women would not be able to come to the police stations and report hate crime. It was a very wise decision. What it looks like in the daily life of these women, a lot of them would rather stay at home than go out and participate in public life or attending events or taking their children from school. You are not only preventing them from expressing their right but also excluding them from public and contributing in society. Thank you very much. Did i tell you yesterday i have been having these check ups . The mid life mot. I know i look like i am in peak shape, but looks can be deceiving. Yes, ok, whatever. Anyway it turns out the real secret to long life is solitude and maybe a regular helping of pasta. Louise signore from new york is 107 years old. She celebrated her birthday on wednesday and the reason she is still alive she says, is she didnt get married. Her sister who is 102 did get married, but then that spells trouble for you, you have been married twice we have had heavy and thundery rain in Greater Manchester and into the derbyshire peaks which is why we have a number of Flood Warnings, and one severe Flood Warning in Whaley Bridge. The rain is hitting the nearby hills and filtering into neighbouring River Systems and leading to the flooding. Just to the southin leading to the flooding. Just to the south in the staffordshire hills, there has been about one month and a half of rainfall in the past week. Further south we have seen more sunshine. A pretty good day. Few if any showers across southern parts of england and into wales. Showers further north, including scotland, those will tend to decay over the next few hours in most places will be dry overnight. Misty over eastern parts of england and scotland. We start with sunshine in many places tomorrow. The cloud will tend to increase as temperatures rise and there is the chance of some showers, particularly in the afternoon and again mainly in the same areas, scotland, northern england, the midlands. Not many showers, more places will have a dry day and it might feel warmer in the sunshine. A small chance of a shower for edgbaston and chances are it will be dry with some sunshine. Temperatures in the low 20s for the second day of the ashes. In that weekend, another area of low pressure is to the west. It will move across the uk next week but it is pushing in these weather fronts just now. Most places start to begin to dry, a bit more cloud in the afternoon, the chance of a few light showers and western parts, head of the main band of rain in the south west. Temperatures in the low to mid 20s with the highest temperatures in the south east of england. On sunday, a bit wetter in the north and west. Heavy and thundery rain across scotland in the north of england. In the south and east, it is drier. It could be warm and humid. This is bbc news im Lukwesa Burak the headlines at 8. Part of a dam wall has collapsed after days of torrential rain in Whaley Bridge in derbyshire with warnings of severe danger to life. The Police Stopped me and said you cannot go into the village. But i saidi cannot go into the village. But i said i was a resident and i need to go in. In one of my partners was at home with the dog and ijust had to get home. This was the dam yesterday evening a torrent of water as the toddbrook reservoir ove rflowed. The bank of england cuts its forecasts for uk growth over the next two years and warns that a no deal brexit would hit the economy even harder. A mother is convicted of murdering her two young daughters

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