indonesia appeals for international help after the earthquake and tsunami that's killed hundreds of people. entire towns have been devastated. it's feared the final death toll could be several thousand. frantic rescue efforts are continuing to find survivors trapped in the rubble. this is what remains of this fishing community, what was tightly packed houses and shops all now reduced to rubble. we'll have the very latest from our correspondent in palu, where people are running out of food, clean water and power. also this lunchtime. the chancellor tells the conservative party conference there will be an agreement on brexit with the eu. when the prime minister gets a deal agreed, there will be a boost to our economic growth, a deal dividend. the parents of a girl who died after eating a pret a manger baguette says more people will die unless there's immediate

action on food labelling. with every minute and every hour that passes, we're sitting, and the uk is sitting on a time bomb of someone dying yet again. that is how serious it is. and outrage among women in the world of science as a leading professor claims that physics was invented and built by men. and coming up on bbc news. as europe's ryder cup heroes head home, captain thomas bjorn praises the fans who watched his team's emphatic victory in paris. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. there are desperate efforts in indonesia to rescue people

trapped after the earthquake and tsunami there. 844 people are known to have died, but there are fears the final death toll could be thouands. survivors are running out of food, power and clean water. the united nations says almost 200,000 people need emergency help. the quake was magnitude 7.5, and hit the island of sulawesi on friday, with tsunami waves along the coast up to six metres high. many of the dead are in the city of palu. 0ur correspondent rebecca henschke reports from there. from above you get a sense of the scale of the destruction here in palu and the huge task for rescue workers. hundreds of homes, shops and livelihoods destroyed. desperate people are now trying to salvage anything of worth from the debris. this is what remains

of this fishing community. what was tightly—packed houses and shops are now reduced to rubble. people here say they only had a few minutes warning after that strong quake on friday, to flee to higher ground when they saw huge waves coming in. those that could survive, did so by clinging onto trees and buildings. now, families are camping out in the open like this family over here, that's collected what they can and are surviving off the food they have. no power here and very little fresh food or freshwater. translation: until now, there's been no aid at all, not even a tent. i'm hoping the government will send tents because all our houses have been destroyed, all 49 homes. there's no signal for

communications and even you know gas, everyone is cheering for this. especially the supply of food, it's very limited. up in the hillside, authorities have dug mass graves, enough for thousands of bodies in an attempt to stop the spread of disease. amongst the despair, there are also heroes. this 21—year—old air—traffic controller, antonius, died making sure a flight took off safely when the quake hit. and against the odds, rescue workers managed to pull survivors from this hotel that completely collapsed in the huge quake. for the people who are managing to get into the city, road travel is very difficult. there's been landslides in the hills up here. the airport remains closed so the traffic, as you can see is bumper—to—bumper with people who can get in.

there is now almost no petrol in palu, which is also making rescue efforts difficult. community members here say there are bodies still amongst the rubble. people who are still missing. you can smell decomposing bodies here. but they don't have the energy resources to do about it. under difficult circumstances, the community here is pulling together, sharing what food and water they have. but with power still completely off and supplies running very low, things are tense. the city is almost out of petrol. the people queueing for hours to get what's left. and there has been more looting today. strong after—shocks continue to be felt, making life even harder here. the chancellor, phillip hammond, has urged conservatives to get

behind the prime minister's brexit strategy, and told the party conference she would secure a deal with the european union which would lead to a brexit bounce for the economy. 0ur political correspondent chris mason reports from birmingham. speech day for the chancellor, at a conference, go something like this. get up. 0'clock to do countless telemetry and radio interviews, and then the bloke at a thai factory —— ina tie then the bloke at a thai factory —— in a tie at as you wander around the factory. so he was in an engineering firm. before he could even roll up at the lectern in the hall, a deep pocketed conservative donor had already had a pop at him and theresa may. i think the prime minister, as imight may. i think the prime minister, as i might say, had let herself down

personally by not being a champion to business as she could be. you might say that she has been so busy on brexit she has not had time to focus on it, but post—brexit this is one of the key issues the conservative party must address. where it stands on enterprise and innovation. when the chancellor did get back to the conference centre, he struck back. business came first, she said. that is why we back business. we back business as the cornerstone of successful economy. asa cornerstone of successful economy. as a force for good in our society. and as an essential expression of oui’ and as an essential expression of our values. where possible, on the main hall, and on the fringes, conservatives are trying to talk about stuff other than brexit. but pretty much every conversation comes back to that topic. it is the goliath stalking these corridors. and one the chancellor had to acknowledge, as he patchily defended the prime minister's plan —— as he

defended it. donald tusk might say it's impossible, he said, but... that's what people said about the light bulb in 1978 and that is our job now is, to prove him wrong. negotiating and preparing for brexit is one of the most complex tasks ever undertaken by a peacetime government. so over the next few weeks, we must stand together, foursquare behind the pm, to get the best possible outcome for britain. earlier, the man whose every professional waking hour is devoted to brexit took on those calling for another referendum. it was close, but it was clear. britain voted to leave the eu. applause respecting the result, that's the

essence of our democracy. and i have to say, i'm heartened by the fact that the majority of those who voted to remain have accepted the referendum verdict. but don't expect any fireworks from government ministers on brexit here this week. the real action is likely to be elsewhere when this conference is over. 0ur assistant political editor, norman smith, is at the conference. a ringing endorsement of their of the prime of the's brexit strategy from her chancellor, but is the conference really behind her? —— ringing endorsement of the prime minister's strategy. there was a lot of talk behind conference of cabinet ministers shuffling away from mrs may, putting distance between her plan and themselves, maybe even further resignations. we are in fact seeing the exact opposite. we have seen a succession seeing the exact opposite. we have seen a succession of misters noisily banging the drum for chequers mrs

may, almost lashing themselves to the chequers mask, with the chancellor always seen as cautious about brexit this morning urging the party to get foursquare behind mrs may and in a conscious echo of the language of brexiteer ‘s who talk about the brexit dividend, suggesting that once mrs may gets deal, there will be a boost to the economy and a deal dividend. similarly from dominic raabe, urging the eu not to underestimate mrs may. the only discordant note has come from, the price of rice, boris johnson again who this morning was pictured running through what looks suspiciously like a field of wheat. remember mrs may famously said the naughtiest thing she had ever done was run through a field of wheat and many will see this as another big at the pm, this could just be an accident of his running route. within cabinet, they do seem to be rallying hind the prime minister. maybe they have just decided to

throw in their lot with her, or they have decided possibly to leave the disagreement and further confirmatory of until this conference is over. —— further compromises until this conference is over, the name of the game getting through conference in one piece. one of the policies being unveiled at the conservative conference today is a promise to ban restaurants in england, wales and scotland from skimming off a share of tips that are meant for waiters and waitresses. the government says it's part of efforts to crack down on exploitation in the workplace, but the hospitality industry says a voluntary code means new legislation is unnecessary. 0ur correspondent, colletta smith, is in manchester. so coletta, how big a problem is this? as you say, this is about where the money goes when consumers or customers pay a tip at the end of a meal, particularly on credit and debit cards. if it sounds a little

familiar, this announcement, that is because it is. the government has already looked at this issue a couple of years ago, they did an industrywide survey and found a couple of the big—name chains including zizzi and pizza express we re including zizzi and pizza express were skimming of ten or 12% of the tips rather than giving it to the star. as a result the industry changed and a voluntary code of practice was put in but some, we still take —— some companies still ta ke to still take —— some companies still take to an a half percent from these charges. the government says this law needs to be set in stone. that they cannot take any money away. the representatives of the industry says that they have changed and responded to customer demand and changed the way they acted as a consequence and

they also say smaller companies should not be forced to bear the brunt of those credit and debit card charges. thank you, very much. the father of natasha ednan—laperouse, who died after eating a pret a manger sandwich on board a flight to france, has described how he had to ring his wife to tell her their daughter was going to die. natasha went into cardiac arrest on the flight to nice, after buying the baguette at heathrow airport in 2016. herfather nadim and her mother tanya have today spoken in detail about what happened for the first time since an inquest ended last week. her midriff, if you like, she lifted up her shirt in the flight and i saw she was totally covered in what looked like very large jellyfish stings. big, red welts all over her body. the last moment was in the toilet of the plane when she said, "daddy, please get the second pen, i can't breathe, i can't breathe. daddy, help me."

those were her final words. he called me and he said she's going to go completely in the next minute, maybe two. you have to say goodbye to her right now. right now, quickly, say goodbye to her. i'm putting the phone by her ear so she can hear you. i spoke to my mother back in london and i said, please go and buy the same sandwich from your local pret a manger. she went to the counter and asked the staff where you pay, she said, is there anything in this sandwich to be concerned about? the staff then went back to somewhere in the back room and handed my mother a folder. a typical folder you would find in any office and said there is some information in there. my mother noticed immediately the sesame seeds were highlighted as an allergen in the sandwich. and my mother was stunned. she said to the staff, where are the sesame seeds because they are not even visible

to the naked eye? she was told by the staff there, well, they are baked into the dough. at which point my mother screamed and she said, you've murdered my grandchild. and the uk is sitting on a time bomb of someone dying yet again, that's how serious it is. i think ask anyone, do we want anyone to die again? no, nobody wants anyone to die, not even pret a manger. so then if that's the case, do something. not words, but deeds. right now. not to see your child ever again is incomprehensible, unless you live through it. even then it's difficult, it's unexplainable. nadim and tanya ednan—laperouse talking about the death of their daughter natasha. a leading italian scientist has caused outrage by claiming that physics was invented and built by men.

professor alessandro strumia, a theoretical physicist from pisa university, was speaking at workshop on sexism in science organised by the european research organisation, cern. he also said that male scientists produce better research than females. the organisers have described the comments as "highly offensive." pallab ghosh reports. cern, a world—leading particle physics lab just outside geneva. it employs thousands of physicists studying the behaviour of subatomic particles. relatively few of them are women. so the management here organised a workshop to attract more female researchers. at the meeting, alessandro strumia told an audience of young female scientists that physics was invented

and built by men, not by invitation. he also showed cartoons making fun of women campaigning for equality in science and presented an analysis that he claimed showed there was no sexism in physics. i have made the simple checks i believe everybody should have done before making this claim. and with some surprise i find it is the opposite. if you are to be hired it is easier if you are women than men. drjessica wade was at the meeting. she was upset and angry at what she heard. i think it's damaging because it tells a whole generation of young scientists who are working in high—energy physics and physics more broadly, that senior people in authority think that women are inferior and shouldn't be trying out for these positions and shouldn't be doing it and should have been there due to tokenism. there are more women working in physics than ever before, but they are still underrepresented, particularly in senior positions. of those studying physics at university, 21.6% are women. as they getjobs as

research assistants, that figure falls to 15.5%. and as they progress in their careers to becoming lecturers, it is 10% and for the very top jobs, professors, it's only 4%. cern has described the talk as highly offensive. researchers here are asking why the organising of a meeting on sexism in physics, could have invited professor strumia to speak without first checking what he was likely to say. palab gosh, bbc news. our top story this lunchtime. indonesia appeals for international help after the earthquake and tsunami on sulawesi island which has killed more than 800 people. and still to come: europe's golfers bask in the triumph of their comfortable ryder cup victory over the united states. and coming up on bbc news. after saturday's damaging defeat

at west ham, underfire mourinho will face the press later ahead of manchester united's must—win champions league clash with valencia tomorrow night. the bbc series, blue planet ii, revealed the extent of plastic in our oceans and the threat to the wildlife that it poses. well tonight, bbc one has a special programme, speaking to some of the world's leading marine biologists to discover the impact of plastic pollution and what can be done to prevent it. 0ne team of volunteers in hampshire has discovered thousands of tiny plastic pellets washed up on a beach near portsmouth. 0ur correspondent duncan kennedy is there. it all looks pristine, but if you ta ke it all looks pristine, but if you take a closer look, you will see thousands of these plastic white

palates called nu rdles thousands of these plastic white palates called nurdles used in the making of bin liners. volunteers have found more than 20 sackfuls of nurdles over the past few days alone. it all come inside with the bbc one programme tonight looking up the problem of plastic pollution in our oceans. i have never seen anything like, quite like this. 0bliterated by unending plastic, these are the waters of southern indonesia. choked by the detritus of human activity. what is going on? it's just one of the disturbing scenes into night's programme, scenes in tonight's programme, presented by the biologist, liz bonynge. look at that. 0n lord howe island off the east coast of australia, there's more. on average what you find, about 20 pieces, how much do you normally find? this is what they did find in the stomach ofjust one,

flesh footed shearwater chick. this is the follow—up programme to blue planet ii, which stunned global audiences last year as it showed the extent of plastic in our oceans. but it's notjust on the other side of the world, this is an island near portsmouth, where a conservation group has just discovered around 20 sackfuls of one particular plastic. they are called nurdles, tiny pellets used to make everything from bin liners to bottles. you can't see them from up here but when you go down. the volunteers say they have no idea why so many have washed up here and say it's devastating for marine life. if you come down and have a look, we were horrified by what we saw in terms of the tiny, tiny plastic nerdles which are about the size of a lentil and they are used in plastic manufacturing.

they are everywhere around here, all around the shoreline. what one survey found, 70% of british beaches now have the tiny white nurdles on them. and to give you an idea of how bad the problem is here, take a look at this jar. in one small section of beach, two meters by two meters, one volunteer spent two hours collecting all these. found a total of about 1000 of these nurdles. not snow, but more nurdles. this time adrift of them washed up by a container ship that was hit by a typhoon in six years ago. from hong kong to hampshire, plastic pollution continues to delusion our oceans. to give you a further idea of the extent of this problem, about1 million of plastic bottles are sold around the world every minute. 0ther

volunteer groups on beaches like this are collecting nurdles and other kinds of plastic, it is a huge and continuing problem. and you can watch that special programme, drowning in plastic, tonight on bbc one at 8.30pm. leading scientists are meeting in south korea this week, to discuss whether global temperatures can be stopped from increasing by more than one—and—a—half degrees celsius this century. the intergovernmental panel on climate change is expected to warn the threshold will be breached by the year 20110, unless rapid action is taken. they'll recommend faster cuts in co2 emissions, and more investment in renewable energy, as our environment correspondent, matt mcgrath, reports. after a summer of record—breaking heat and storms in many parts of the world, scientists are more confident than ever that the fingerprint of climate change can be seen in the severity and frequency of extreme

weather events. while the paris climate agreement committed governments to keeping this rise in global temperatures this century to well under two degrees, many researchers believe this limit is in fact too high and exposes millions of people to very significant dangers of flooding from sea—level rise. it also threatens a huge loss of plants, animals and other vulnerable species around the world. to assess the feasibility of keeping the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, scientists from the ipcc are meeting this week in south korea to produce a report on this new, lower limit. we can expect to see more extreme weather... the study will say that unless rapid action is taken, the world will sail past this target by 2040. the authors say that every possible option to control emissions must be considered. the thing with climate change is, you don't always necessarily fall off a cliff at a particular level of warming. but the warmer it gets globally, frankly the worse it gets and we need to remember that every little extra we can do in terms of reducing emissions

will bring benefits. global carbon output will need to peak by 2020, renewable energy will have to increase rapidly. even if these steps are taken, the report will likely recommend the controversial use of machines to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. many critics think it's a mistake to rely on expensive and untested technology. but first the scientists will have to convince government representatives from all over the world that their report makes sense. there are concerns that countries highly reliant on fossil fuels such as the us, australia and saudi arabia may attempt to water down some of the studies' recommendations. whatever the outcome, the report will likely say that keeping temperatures below 1.5 degrees can be done, but it will require a massive transformation of the global economy and society. matt mcgrath, bbc news. europe's golfers are celebrating after their convincing victory over the united states in the ryder cup.

andy swiss reports. a picture perfect morning for the thomas bjorn. the captain with the cup, as europe's remarkable victory here began to slowly sink in. francesco molinari's winning point yesterday had sparked wild celebrations for the players and their thousands of jubilant fans. a triumph of team spirit, even if it's left their skipper facing a trip to the tattoo parlour. well, i made an off—the—cuff remark about if they won this, i would get the score tattooed on me. i'm not going to say where. and so, i'm going to have to live up to that at some stage, but we'll see when it will be! it's been relaxed, it's been serious when it needed to be. they've just been a group of guys that i can't describe them enough, they're just brilliant. when thomas bjorn and his players arrived here a week ago,

they could barely have dreamt of this outcome. they were the underdogs against the us team packed with big names. but those stars failed to shine. tiger woods lost all four of his matches here, while patrick reed criticised his captain for not playing him enough. and amid the recriminations, their long wait for a win in europe goes on. obviously leaves a sour taste in our mouth, to come over here now for 27 years and not be able to win on foreign soil. that's the goal. we want to be successful in this event, we want to grow, we want to get better, but we have to do it here in europe. and that we will be the goal four years from now. but as the us head home in disappointment, europa league here with a cup. for bjorn and his players, it's been some journey. andy swiss, bbc news, paris. in the past few minutes, it's been announced that one of france's most popular singers, charles aznavour, has died. he was 94.

during a career which lasted more than 70 years, he recorded more than a thousand songs and sold more than 100 million records around the world. emma jane kirby looks back at his life. #we # we can never know how love takes over. . . # we can never know how love takes over... france's answer to frank sinatra. he might have only been five tall, but he was once voted as being bigger than elvis. he wrote over 700 songs and recorded more than 1000 tracks, but throughout his life he remained self—deprecating and often claimed his shortcomings included his voice, his height and his lack of personality.

# i his lack of personality. #iam his lack of personality. # i am still single, but happy. but he did have a certain engine is acquire, even if he himself couldn't put his finger on what it was.|j don't know what it is exactly but i think it is because i am dealing with a sadness and every day is trouble with problems of the ageing man with a young girl or the lost love, the typical tale of the anniversary of the day the woman who let herself go. the son of arminian immigrants come he started out as a child actor but turned his attention to songwriting. his talent grabbed the attention of edith piaf. she sang his songs, asked him to toe with her and then finally became his mantle, encouraging him to go solo. by

mantle, encouraging him to go solo. by the late 60s he had become an international superstar. singing in several languages, and performing with all the big names. he also enjoyed huge fame on the big screen. he once even won a best actor award. # she may be the reason i survived... charles aznavour remained a showman until the end of his life. although he gave many final concerts, he could never quite say goodbye. i will keep on singing, he said once, until i forget the