Paul Henry. Coming up Kenya looks ahead to fresh presidential elections after the last ones were a null by the Supreme Court a personally disagree with a ruling that has been made. But I respect its much as I disagree with respect will be in the Indian state of Bihar one of the worst places to be affected by floods in South Asia thus why French farmers are putting their products in vending machines the big advantage with the vending machines is that people can stop of produce any time and that one has doubled our sales and our 2 guests this morning are Melissa Fleming chief spokes person of the u.n. H.c.r. In 10 Marshall author and journalist all to come on weekend. After the World News. This is the b.b.c. News with Nick Kelly President Trump has asked Congress for nearly 8000000000 dollars as an initial payment to help with the response and recovery effort following widespread flooding in Texas and Louisiana a week after hurricane Harvey 1st struck tens of thousands of people remain in temporary shelters and problems as a still rising in some areas President Trump is to visit for a 2nd time on Saturday as James Cook reports he'll arrive in Houston where search teams are still going door to door looking for survivors and bodies Mr Trump will then travel to Louisiana which was also deluged by heavy rainfall the president has asked Congress to allocate an initial 7 point $9000000000.00 in disaster relief that made a few still says 15 times that amount will be needed in the end President Trump and the South Korean president in have agreed that South Korea's missile capability should be strengthened in a telephone call the 2 men agreed to revise guidelines which currently kept the range and payload of souls ballistic missiles from Seoul Here's yogis along my there are restrictions on how far South Korea's missiles can fly and how much weight they can carry according to an agreement of the country has with the u.s. But in the face of the threat from North Korea both nations have decided to boost those Listen capabilities the issue was discussed when the presidents of the 2 countries spoke to each other over the phone on Friday 3 days after North Korea fired a rocket which flew over Japan President Trump has also approved the sale of billions of dollars worth of military equipment to South Korea so far there's been no response from the North Korean another 3 u.s. Diplomatic staff in Cuba have reported health problems bringing to 19 the number who've suffered symptoms including damage hearing the union representing u.s. Diplomatic staff says some of the victims suffered mild brain injuries and permanent hearing loss u.s. Officials believe a form of covert so. That device was placed in or near the diplomats homes to deliberately cause harm Cuba has denied any involvement and has defended this record in protecting diplomats on its territory the family of a missing human rights campaigner in Argentina have called for the security minister to step down Santiago Maldonado has been missing since the security forces clashed with supporters of an indigenous group in southern Argentina Macarena journalist and going as Arias says the case survives memories in Argentina of a dark chapter in the country's recent past action dinner has a tradition in human rights since the recovery of that there were Chrissy in the early eighty's and after the data ship in the late seventy's Wade 30000 people disappeared so that's why our center was Casey so I would it's echoing the pain of those days world news from the b.b.c. The Western Canadian province of British Columbia has extended the state of emergency for another 2 weeks as firefighters continue to battle 160 wildfires since April about a 1000000 hectares of forest have been destroyed the Canadian government is considering the use of trailers to house numb precedented flow of asylum seekers entering from the United States many of them Haitians more than 6000 have crossed into Quebec province on foot from the state of New York since early July so far the asylum seekers have been housed in tents near the border but Canada's transport minister Marc Garneau says study shelters may be needed in the coming winter we are as a precautionary measure looking at the possibility of trailers which are have a more robust capability to house people in colder conditions so we're just doing our homework and we're trying to read to speed whether something could possibly happen in the coming months when we go into the fall and the winter. The Chinese company has begun using what it describes as the 1st facial recognition system for paying for goods in shops the technology and retail giant Ali Baba has installed the scanning equipment at a fast food restaurant in the eastern city of Hunt job it means customers don't need to carry cash or card and it concerns about data privacy The company insists none of the information it uses is stored and black smoke has been battering from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco on the eve of its closure ordered by Washington firefighters said there was no cause for alarm and suggested unidentified items were being deliberately burned earlier Russia or accuse the us authorities of violating its diplomats immunity saying that f.b.i. Agents intended to search the consulate buildings including employees accommodation on Saturday the consulate closure as part of a series of tit for tat actions between Washington and Moscow b.b.c. News. Below the time is 6 o 6 g.m.t. 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