It has damaged or destroyed 100,000 homes, and left more than a Million People displaced. And yet President Trump spent the eve of this visit talking about scrapping a policy that protects young, undocumented immigrants. The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey is plain to see here. Texas is barely beginning to count the cost, and many people here are astonished that the president would choose this moment even to mention immigration. And we have a lot of distilled waterfor the babies. Jessicas home was flooded, and now she is helping others. Brought here illegally at the age of four, she is among 200,000 texans who face being fired and deported if President Trump keeps his campaign promise. Its a complete slap in the face. I mean, you see people who are struggling, your initial reaction is to help them, and his is the complete opposite. He knows what he is doing. He knows what the effects of this would be in the community. The white house says the president will announce his decisio
Welcome to bbc news. Im duncan golestani. North korea says it has developed an advanced Hydrogen Bomb capable of being mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. State media said the countrys leader, kim jong un, had inspected such a device, although theres been no independent verification. Last week, north korea fired an intermediate range missile over northern japan, prompting the authorities there to warn residents to take cover. Our correspondent Yogita Limaye is in the south korean capital seoul. We now have three photographs that have been released of kimjong un looking at a silver coloured what north korea is claiming is an advanced Hydrogen Bomb, an advanced nuclear weapon. The statement says that this is a weapon capable of fitting onto an intercontinental long range ballistic missile. Now, this is an objective they had set for themselves. We know they tested these long range rockets injuly. There were two tests that were carried out of intercontinental missiles and at
Leading automakers race to plug in. Where. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Clean up efforts have begun in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The worst affected areas are in the caribbean where seventeen thousand people desperately need shelter, with some still short of food and drinking water. Its believed that 37 people were killed on the islands. 0ur correspondent laura bicker has been to the Remote Island ofjost van dyke in the British Virgin islands and sent this report. The idyllic shores and secluded bays ofjost van dyke were no match for Hurricane Irmas wrath. She tore through the island, stripping away years of hard work in just a few hours. This would normally be a place to escape to. Some may now describe it as a place to escape from. But not those who live here. This was the bar here. Seddy callwood has lost everything he built his bar, his restaurant, and his home. And yet, he is determined to start again. So first have to clean it up. First get it cleaned it up, like, take out all
Described the crisis there as the worlds fast developing refugee emergency and a human rights nightmare. More than half a million rohingyas have now fled to bangladesh. Around 90 of the population of myanmar is buddhist. But a million Rohingya Muslims, who are denied citizenship, live in rakhine state. The latest violence broke out in august, when rohingya militants launched attacks on security forces. The bbcsjonah fisher has seen internal un documents, outlining concerns about the way the conflict and the crisis have been handled. In the months since Rohingya Muslims first began fleeing into bangladesh, the United Nations has been at the forefront of the response. Delivering aid and making robust statements, condemning the burmese authorities. The situation remains, or seems, a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. But could, and should, the un have done more before the killing and burning started . Really disturbing to think that some of this could possibly have been prevented. Caro
Violence in myanmar. The un secretary general has described the crisis there as the worlds fast developing refugee emergency and a human rights nightmare. More than half a million rohingyas have now fled to bangladesh. Around 90 of the population of myanmar is buddhist. But a million Rohingya Muslims, who are denied citizenship, live in rakhine state. The latest violence broke out in august, when rohingya militants launched attacks on security forces. The bbcsjonah fisher has seen internal un documents, outlining concerns about the way the conflict and the crisis have been handled. In the months since Rohingya Muslims first began fleeing into bangladesh, the United Nations has been at the forefront of the response. Delivering aid and making robust statements, condemning the burmese authorities. The situation remains, or seems, a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. But could, and should, the un have done more before the killing and burning started . Really disturbing to think that som