in venezuela at the moment, but this ra nks in venezuela at the moment, but this ranks as one of the most dramatic. this came through a few hours ago... "venezuela authorities tampered with constitutional referendum turnout figures". that from the head of the company which provided the voting machines. here's more of what he said. smartmatic has provided a lecture and technology in venezuela since 2004. even in moments of political conflict and division we have been satisfied that the voting process and the count has been completely accurate. it is therefore with the deepest regret that we have to report... that the turn—out numbers on sunday 30th july for the constituent assembly in venezuela were tampered with. the venezuela election council has responded by saying the accusation is irresponsible. will grant joins us now. is irresponsible. will grant joins us now. how do we decide who is right? has any evidence been offered by either side? so far it'sjust a war of words. what's interesting is that you are right, the latest is that you are right, the latest is that the election council here, the head of the election authorities in venezuela, has come out all guns blazing, and she says that he claims from the smartmatic company that i’u ns from the smartmatic company that runs the voting machines in venezuela and has done since 2004, that their claims are irresponsible and baseless. you are right, who do we choose? who is telling the truth? it's hard to say, except for the fa ct it's hard to say, except for the fact that for a long time the venezuelan government has heralded that company as the reason it's elections are free and fair, so if it suddenly calls them baseless, it throws that into question. it looks like it will rumble on. the venezuelan government have no intention of backing down on this and will continue to say they drew in more than 8 million votes for as long as this conversation goes on. you have tried to help us all week that this vote is to elect a constituent samba, which if it wants to can alter the venezuelan constitution. —— constituent assembly. is the contention from the company that the outcome of the election is incorrect or is itjust about the amount of people taking part. the outcome would never be incorrect because of the fact the opposition boycotted it. that tim threw‘s government would win was neverin threw‘s government would win was never in question. the turnout is important, because a couple of weeks before the opposition had their own informal popular referendum and they say they gathered around 7.5 million votes. that day queues were seen not just in venezuela but countries all over the world that have large venezuelan populations. here we did not see so many venezuelan populations. here we did not see so many cues, venezuelan populations. here we did not see so many cues, not by a long way, so the suggestion, and this comes from the opposition, that whatever was going to happen the maduro government had to be seen to be beating that earlier popular informal referendum that has carried out in polling stations in roundabouts and people's front yards. it was very ad hoc. it's a confusing situation, and confusing for those of us here. it still has a long way to go before there is any clarity. i think most venezuelans are concerned there isn't more fighting on the streets, more demonstrations and more death. we have had more than 120 deaths since this whole thing began. another element of the story to look at and thatis element of the story to look at and that is how the watching world is reacting. if you watched us yesterday we reported that two leading opposition figures in venezuela had been taken from their homes in the middle of the night and taken to a military prison. donald trump has condemned that is the actions of the maduro dictatorship, and he has added... "the united states holds maduro personally responsible for the health and safety of mr lopez, mr ledezma and any others seized." and this is the us secretary of state. what we want to see is for venezuela to return to its constitution, returned to scheduled elections and allow the people of venezuela to have the voice in the government that they deserve. we are evaluating all our policy options as to what we can do to create a change of conditions where either maduro decides he doesn't have a future and wa nts to decides he doesn't have a future and wants to leave of his own accord, or we can return the government processes back to their constitution. the problem for america is the more it criticises venezuela, the more it plays into the narrative of mr maduro and the narrative originally promoted by hugo chavez. definitely. and the more they put sanctions on the top leadership and president maduro personally, and many venezuelans fear on venezuela as a country, the idea that there would be some kind of cu ba idea that there would be some kind of cuba style us economic embargo on the country, is very worrying too many venezuela ns. but the country, is very worrying too many venezuelans. but the more that happens, the more it could potentially strengthen maduro instead of working against him. in the cu ban example, instead of working against him. in the cuban example, president obama decided it simply wasn't working any more so decided it simply wasn't working any more so decided to roll back some of the parts of the us economic sanctions, but that has taken six decades. if they were to start doing the same thing in venezuela, i think there is general consensus that it would hurt the poorest instead of the maduro government and it would essentially backfire washington. thank you. the americans applying pressure to venezuela. and they have also applied more pressure to russia, north korea and iran. donald trump has signed through fresh sanctions against russia, north korea and iran. he's not that happy about it. here's a statement he released. it says... "the bill remains seriously flawed — particularly because it encroaches on the executive branch‘s authority to negotiate." "despite its problems, i am signing this bill for the sake of national unity." he finished the statement by telling us. "i built a truly great company worth many billions of dollars. as president i can make far better deals with foreign countries than congress. " this is to do with who can lead america's response and interaction with these countries. we also had this from russia... they are telling us this from russia... they are telling us that mr medvedev, a senior figure in that we're putting's administration says it an end to hope for better ties with the trump administration. we can go to laura bicker live in washington, dc. a few of us thought those hopes had already gone. i think right at the start of the trump administration there was hopes of a reset with russia. both donald trump and vladimir putin looked for it. when president obama heard from the us intelligence agencies that they believed russia meddled in the us election, president obama responded by expelling russian diplomats. at the time putin said he would not react and would work with the new trump administration. here we are more than six months later and congress has done in acting for donald trump with regards to their reaction to this alleged meddling and russia's actions in crimea. when it comes to congress's response, they have made their decision clear. but it all went to president trump's desk and he wasn't happy. during the white house briefing we had in the last hour, press secretary sara huckabee sanders said it wasn't the fa ct huckabee sanders said it wasn't the fact it was sanctions president trump was concerned about, but he believed congress had overreached and was stepping onto the white house lawn when it comes to responsibility. he believes it should be up to him to punish russia and iran and north korea when appropriate, not congress. that's one of the reasons why he mentions in his statement him being head of a company and him being elected to perform such measures. but the swift reaction from russia, a full—scale trade war, that is what the four russian foreign ministry has described it as and they say the relationship is perilous. iran say the sanctions violate the nuclear deal and they will respond in an appropriate and proportionate manner. this is the wire copy of the russian statement. we can talk about north korea next and we will bring laura back in. a really interesting statement from us secretary of state rex tillerson. we do not seek a regime change. we do not seek the collapse of the regime and we do not seek accelerated acceleration of the peninsula. we do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel. we are trying to convey to the north koreans, we are not your enemy or your threat. you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us. quite a shift in tone. consider that statement when i tell you us senator lindsey graham in a recent television interview said... there is a military option to destroy north korea's missile programme and north korea itself. if thousands die, they will die over there, they will not die here, and president trump has told me that to my face. quite different messages coming from the white house and the state department. the secretary of state going on a big trip, it will be difficult for him to pitch this. it puts him in a bit of a bind. be difficult for him to pitch this. it puts him in a bit ofa bind. if he's heading out to speak to leaders in the region, they will sit back and wonder, which authority, on whose authority is he actually speaking. we had one message from the white house and one from the state department. so rex tillerson 110w state department. so rex tillerson now has a difficultjob because he has not got to negotiate with china, especially after what donald trump tweeted about china at the weekend, almost putting the blame for the north korean situation in the chinese lap. and then rex tillerson saying it's a north korean problem, and not a chinese problem. so when it comes to his negotiating skills and power, it puts him in a bit of a bind. it will be an interesting trip for him. laura bicker in washington, dc. some of you might be watching in south asia if you are a plate. our next story is about extreme weather warnings in that part of the world. this is long—term — by the end of the century high humidity and temperatures may get to the limit of what humans can survive. this comes from us scientists. they say india, pakistan, bangladesh will be affected. they contain around a fifth of the world's population. and 30% of them will be at risk. i spoke to envrionment correspondent matt mcgrath about the science behind these temperatures. most of the time when we talk about climate change and rising temperature, we talk about air temperatures. these scientists have looked at humidity be, it that's the real killer. when you get above 35 degrees, human bodies can't survive. we all die degrees, human bodies can't survive. we alldie in degrees, human bodies can't survive. we all die in six hours, the fittest person alive. scientists have projected forward the climate models to the end of the century and they find large areas of india, pakistan and bangladesh will be exposed to that kind of temperature. nobody is exposed to this 35 degrees threshold at the moment, but about a third of that part of the world will be at the end of the century if nothing is done. why are we focused on southern asia? there are other parts of the world like iran and the gulf countries where temperatures are even higher. what's unique is the combination of temperatures and people and poorer people working in agriculture. millions of people who work outdoors. if these projections are maintained, a lot of these people would be in conditions they can't survive in. it feeds into a broader discussion about how the entire world should respond to rising temperatures. one of the more hopeful lines in the study is that if we can put into place some of the restrictions talked about in paris, we could stop a large number of these types of deaths that would occui’ these types of deaths that would occur in these humidity editions. do you think this type of study will influence the discussions we have about the conditions in which we live. it seems to be a more sophisticated portrait than simply saying the temperatures go up by this much. it's on a broad scale. this is using a number of very sophisticated climate models, it will not go down to the granular, city or regional area. it looks at a bigger area and it can't hope beyond that at this moment in time. is it political? sometimes there is a sense scientists put out data because they look for outgoings.” because they look for outgoingslj don't think so. research has been looked at before in iran. they are looking at the combination of heat and people in these exposed regions which is why they say believes people will be at risk. in a few minutes we will turn to donald trump's choice for ambassador to the netherlands. if you have heard what he has had to say about the netherlands and also on muslims, you will realise why this has got a lot of attention. fifty army cadets aged between 12 and 17 have had to be rescued in northern ireland after getting into difficulties in the mourne mountains. the group who'd travelled there from england — were caught in bad weather. 16 of them were understood to be suffering from hypothermia. the ministry of defence has confirmed that all are now safe and accounted for. our ireland correspondent chris buckler is at the scene and sent this update. this afternoon up this pretty steep and narrow path, 4x4 rescue vehicles have been driving up and coming back down with teenagers in the back, many of them on stretchers, some suffering from hypothermia. others suffering from ankle and leg injuries. taking a look at the mourne mountains, there is still a little bit of mist, it looks quite calm at the moment but the weather can change in a moment and that is exactly what happened to these cadets from the cleveland army cadet force. there were caught out in very strong wind, in heavy rain. at some stages the rescue teams tell me that visibility was down to perhaps 20 or 30 yards and that is why there was such difficulty here. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the company that provided the technology for venezuela's voting system says the turnout in sunday's controversial election was inflated by at least one million votes. the dowjones industrial average has hit a record high today. it's an index of 13 major us companies. that kind of 32,000 points. this graph is from bloomberg — you can see a spike in november after president trump was elected, and then again injanuary when he was inaugurated. we can go live to new york. is it too simplistic to say this is just down to donald trump? trump doesn't tell the whole story. the dowjones and all us markets have been on an absolute tear for the last few months. the dow jones absolute tear for the last few months. the dowjones closing today above 22,000 points. that marks the sixth straight time that the dow jones has had a record close. it's quite significant but a few things are at play. first, its earnings season, are at play. first, its earnings season, so are at play. first, its earnings season, so a are at play. first, its earnings season, so a lot of companies report quarterly earnings and 70% of companies have already reported and by and large a lot of the companies have reported pretty good earnings. the baking sector is doing well, the oil sector is doing well now the prices are rebounding. we heard from apple yesterday. their earnings were much better than people expected and asa much better than people expected and as a result we saw apple's shares hit another all—time high in trading and that really lifted the dowjones to where it is now. presumably when the big companies do well, that doesn't automatically mean the whole economy will be performing equally well. there are other factors at play. exports are higher. investors are feeling more confident now the federal reserve, the american central bank, has said they will raise interest rates but do it slowly. they are communicating really well. some outside factors. and there is somebody who is business friendly at the white house. when we look at investors and wall street, they are pretty much shrugging off the fact that legislatively we have not seen some of the things president trump wanted to get accomplished, like reforming the tax code or getting the $1 billion infrastructure spending bill. that said, we have somebody thatis bill. that said, we have somebody that is business friendly and wall street is responding to that. thank you as always. we can go to the car industry now. german carmakers have avoided a government ban on diesel cars by agreeing to a software upgrade which is designed to cut emissions levels. it comes in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal, two years ago volkswagen admitted installing cheat software on 11 million cars worldwide. it caused a lot of problems for the company and for people. volkswagen had put aside $19 billion to cover the cost of it and it is now thought the cost of it and it is now thought the bill might be even higher. here's the bbc‘s jenny hill in berlin. nothing keeps germany's car manufacturers awake at night more than the prospect of diesel engines being banned from german roads. air pollution levels here are now becoming so high in inner cities that they regularly breach legal limits. last week a court in stuttgart upheld a proposal to ban diesel cars from the city itself. having said that, the german government were able as a result to sit the manufacturers down today at the so—called diesel summit and say that something needs to happen. i must say that this evening the outcome of those high—level talks has been rather widely regarded as proof that the german government is either unable or unwilling to really bring the, albeit tarnished but powerful automotive industry to deal. 5 million cars will be retrofitted with the software that should reduce emissions by something like a quarter to a third in a vehicle, we are told. in mind that the majority of those vehicles are made by volkswagen. my understanding is that half of them, 2.5 million vehicles, were due to be retrofitted with the software anyway. there is a sense here that perhaps the government and automotive industry could have gone a lot further. this is pete hoekstra. you may well not know him — if you're watching in the netherlands, you're about to see a lot more of him. he's been confirmed as donald trump's choice for us ambassador there. it's an interesting selection — here's mr hoekstra in 2015 in a discussion about muslims in europe. the islamic movement has now got to a point where they have put europe into chaos. chaos in the netherlands. there are cars being burned, politicians are being burned. with the influx of the islamic community, and, yes, there are no go zones in the netherlands. they are tearing the dutch apart, politically. he went on to describe his experience after he took a trip to hungary. the little railroad station we went through in buddha pest, there were 15 of us going through the soviet era efficiency. —— in budapest. but the next day it was surrounded by 10,000 invaders, refugees, people climbing through the window of the train we would have been on if we had stayed longer. when they come, they don't integrate. they are not assimilated. they become marginalised. they may be ok when they first get there, but they are they first get there, but they are the next wave ofjihadists in europe, the people who have not become assimilated. a few things warranting comment there. i spoke to mr zwart, from the washington bureau of the nos, the netherlands public broadcaster. i think the reaction to the reaction was threefold. the natural reaction is, who? nobody knows the us ambassador to our country. it's not important to people in their daily lives so they don't care too much. but then they hear that he is from dutch heritage, and his name is very dutch. he was born in 1953, and that fills people initially with a sense of pride. the dutch feel a very strong sense of connection to the united states and feel they were at the cradle, the birth of new york. they feel a strong connection to the united states. and then they see videos like you just showed, and then the reaction changes. what pete hoekstra says goes directly against a lot of the social and economical values we have in the netherlands. i'm sure you want to know a little bit more about that. i would like to know about it, and i covered dutch elections where immigration was a big issue, but is not accurate to say it was tearing the netherlands apart. do you think he has exaggerated the importance of immigration? absolutely he was exaggerating. the fact he says politicians are being burned in the netherlands, being set on fire, that's a blatant lie, let's be honest. the fact he says there are no go zones, dangerous criminal no—go zones with criminals and immigrants, that's absolutely not true. does that mean we in the netherlands have a happy go lucky, all inclusive society? absolutely not. there are a lot of people in the netherlands that feel overwhelmed by the numbers of refugees coming in. they watch the news and they see the terrorist attacks, like in your country, and they are worried about it. there is a reason why the right—wing freedom party of geert wilders did so well in the previous elections in march. but does that mean that every dutch person feels that there is a tsunami of muslim immigrants coming to the netherlands like geert wilders is saying and what pete hoekstra is condoning, that's absolutely not true. it goes against the values we have in the netherlands. we try to resist in the netherlands that kind of rhetoric that divides the country and doesn't bring us anywhere.“ you're watching in the netherlands you're watching in the netherlands you welcome to give your reaction to that news of the new us ambassador to your country. that's it for this half of outside source. i will be backin half of outside source. i will be back ina half of outside source. i will be back in a couple of minutes time when we will have the latest on this potential deal between barcelona and paris st germain. neymar could break the world transfer record. we will be talking about floods and typhoons in this weather forecast. much of our time will be spent in asia where the weather is particularly likely at the moment. looking at the effect where we have two tropical systems coming together, spiralling around each other. it's called the smartmatic effect where two storms have brought torrential rain across south—east areas of china. more recently it has been the turn of a neighbouring province with 113 millimetres of rain falling province with 113 millimetres of rainfalling in province with 113 millimetres of rain falling in 24 hours. again, flooding has been a result, with ca rs flooding has been a result, with cars submerged, people struggling to wade through the waist deep flood waters. it has been affecting life ina big waters. it has been affecting life in a big way, affecting homes and businesses. the moisture left over from the two systems is tracking north and moving underneath the jet stream. this kink in thejet north and moving underneath the jet stream. this kink in the jet stream will create a low pressure form. we could see some nasty flooding, 150 millimetres of rain so on the way in next 24 hours. we have been looking at this typhoon in recent days as well, it's massive, probably one of the most powerful storms we are going to see this year in the pacific ocean. the question is, where is it going? wind in next few days will pick up to gusts of 250 kilometres per hour, 150 mph. where it makes landfall it will cause devastation, and it adding to shanghai before it changes direction. china perhaps out of the firing line but south korea and japan are looking worried. the jet strea m japan are looking worried. the jet stream across the north—west us is building a big area of high pressure. that's causing air to sink down through the atmosphere and temperatures to search. a heatwave at the moment and a number of places will see temperatures in the high 30s and low 40s as we get to the end of the week, potentially setting new temperature records in this part of the world. it's also very hot across central and eastern europe for a similar reason. in italy, temperatures pushing over the 40 celsius mark. a number of red weather warnings over the last 24 hours that are likely to be reissued across italy and parts of the balkans. potentially dangerous levels of heat. further north in the united kingdom, a familiar story with low—pressure still with us. thursday will bring a day of bright spells and heavy showers. it will also be very blustery. we will have also be very blustery. we will have a full also be very blustery. we will have afull uk also be very blustery. we will have a full uk were forecast in the next half an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. in venezuela there's been an explosive accusation about last sunday's election. the town of numbers on sunday the 30th ofjuly the town of numbers on sunday the 30th of july but the town of numbers on sunday the 30th ofjuly but the constituent assembly in venezuela were tampered with. american scientists believe they've found a way to eradicate inherited heart disease by removing the faulty dna that leads to disease. save the children say that up to a million children are at risk of death from cholera in yemen. we'll hear from our global heath correspondent. and if you want to get in touch on any of the stories we're doing #bbcos is where to find us.