Pool in north devon. And its war at Waterloo Station, in london, as signalling problems caused delays for commuters, for commuters, on the very day it fully reopened after a month of engineering works. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. President donald trump has arrived in texas to assess the damage caused by storm harvey, as floodwaters across the state continue to rise. In houston, more than 30,000 thousand people have been forced from their homes due to the Tropical Storm, which has set a new record for rainfall in the state. The rain has been falling since last friday. Some places have seen more than a meter of rain. The greatest danger may be yet to come, with floodwaters rising in several rivers. A major dam to the west of houston has begun overflowing as harvey pushes the reservoir past capacity. Engineers have tried to prevent nearby communities from being inundated by releasing some of the water held by addicks dam. Around 160 kilometers west of houston is the Small Commun
All that in the next 60 minutes. Julie hyman is here. Julie we were on the air when they got those headlines from north korea, that the foreign minister from north korea said President Trumps comments over the weekend about to a declaration of war. Stocks have taken a leg down and have done really recovered. This is slightly unusual because most of the rhetoric coming up over the past two months has not seen a reaction from stocks, however, the word war has not really been bandied about. We have seen the nasdaq in particular taking a hit, down 1 . It had already been the worst performing of the three major averages. In terms of other assets, are we seeing investors be riskaverse . Yes, indeed. U. S. Treasurys going down by three basis points. Gold catching up a bit, up half a percent. The dollar euro are lower against the japanese yen. Vix still below 11 at this stage. Elsewhere, we are looking at the continuing fallout from the echo equifax hack. And analyst has said that this progres
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Catalonia boyer from our correspondent in barcelona also coming up. Australias top Court Disqualifies the deputy Prime Minister for holding a dual citizenship decision that has cost the Australian Government its thin majority in parliament. And the bowels of being counted in kenyas repeat president ial election but take two of the paul has been marred by deadly clashes a boycott and a low turnout look at the latest from nairobi. Polls waggling the worlds biggest carmaker says its burning as long as fifty three percent in the last quarter now thats partly due to the costs of the diesel prices. A low on brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show the standoff between spain and catalonia is expected to come to a head today the spanish is due to vote on the governments proposal to invoke article one fifty five of the constitution now that would put catalonia under direct rule from the dread yesterday colonias president through the region into confusion by backtracking on his plans to call
Today the first consequence would be the dismissal of catalonia separatist president well take you to madrid and barcelona also on the program. Ballots are being counted in kenyas rerun president ial election but voting day saw a deadly clashes with police a vote to boycott voter intimidation and low turnout well bring you the latest from nairobi. And australias top Court Disqualifies the deputy Prime Minister beholden to all citizenship decision that has cost the government its the fifth majority in parliament. Im phil gale welcome to the program. Experience Prime Minister addressed the countrys upper house of Parliament Today ahead of a debate and vote on the government plans to be imposed direct rule on the region of catalonia the senate is expected to approve Mariano Rajoy request to trigger article one five five the spanish constitution which allows Central Government to remove catalans regional leaders from Office Starting with president Carlos Bustamante article one five five ha