you're watching beyond one hundred days. is it a real fbi investigation or is it a fig leaf that gives republicans cover to vote for brett kavanaugh? the reopened background check into mr trump's nominee for the supreme court has already fallen victim to america's intensely partisan politics. the president isn't totally clear on the scope of the probe but he is defending his man. what's his wife is going through, what his beautiful children are going through is not describable, it is not describable and it is not fair. the death toll from the indonesian earthquake is still less than a thousand but that figure will rise and authorities are racing to bury the dead. also on the programme... a year on from the worst mass shooting in modern american history, has enough been done to stop another massacre like las vegas? and who gets the tip, the employer or the staff? the british government wants

to introduce a new law to stop restaurants skimming the money we leave on the table. hello and welcome. i'm katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. donald trump says the investigation into brett kavanaugh must be quick and comprehensive. and therein lies the debate. can it really be both? democrats fear the fbi investigation into the president's supreme court nominee will end up being a whitewash because it is limited in scope and only a few people are being interviewed. here's donald trump a few moments ago. this is not a man who said alcohol was... he was perfect with respect to alcohol. i thought he was actually, going back so many years, excellent. the thing that is interesting in the past 25 of 30 yea rs interesting in the past 25 of 30

years during his professional career is there are no bad reports. there are bad reports on everybody in here, most of the people sitting down, except to mike pence, by the way. if we find one on him, that will be the greatest short of all time. speaking about alcohol there because thatis speaking about alcohol there because that is one of the things that raised is whether brett kavanaugh was truthful about his alcohol inta ke was truthful about his alcohol intake in college and is something the democrats would like to have investigated further. and joining us now from chicago is democratic congresswomanjan schakowsky — who opposes the kavanaugh nomination. congresswoman, thank you much for joining us. the democrats have pushed for this fbi investigation for weeks now. now they have god, while they not satisfied? well, because they think the limit as to who can be interviewed may be too small delivered the leg negotiations are going on right now. the

president said they are free... the fbi is free to interview whoever they want but it looks like it may be limited to four people, far more than that have come forward with allegations and observations about the kind of drinking that he did in those high school and college. i think it is really important that, even in the short period of time, that there should be unlimited numbers of people that are relevant to this case that should be interviewed otherwise i think it is a real shame. the president is saying neutral lying on his republican colleagues in the senate to tell in the scope of this investigation, they want to keep limited, but what republicans would say is democrats won this to be unlimited, a huge, big fishing expedition that delay this to be actions and it is all on their part. a number of people went to college

with him at yale. where, by the way, he claims he worked so hard to get there, he was a legacy to yale because of his grandfather. things like he lives to congress by minimising his alcohol use, he is frequently seen staggering, sloppy drunk, drawn to the point of incoherence, no way he could remember everything. aggressive when he was drunk and on, and on, and one. these are people who saw him, who know what was doing in college and in grammar school. they should be interviewed because this all goes to character and it goes to the character... what are we saying to boysin character... what are we saying to boys in our country right now? it does not matter what you do in high school or college, you, too, could be on the supreme court of the united states of america, even if you abuse women. attempted rain and

sexual abuse is one thing, there are an awful lot of men and people who sit on the democratic bench who have drunk too at excess in their lifetime. —— rape and sexual abuse is one thing. should that exclude him from taking up a position on the bench, the alcohol abuse? no, what i say if he lied to congress about it and also about the yearbook and the entries into his e—book, talking about being... because they respect her, she was one of us, but she herself said she was just shocked by what was being spoken about, the triangle... the devil's triangle. talking about vomiting because he had a weak stomach, on and on about what a boy scout he was when he was

in high school and college. it is just not true. not necessarily wouldn't be disqualifying bottle lying to congress definitely is. wouldn't be disqualifying bottle lying to congress definitely is] dd fans he put up the other day attacking the left, the clinton conspiracy, the town that she adopted when he came out, literally fighting, does that cause a problem for him to sit on the bench? absolutely. i was in the room when doctor ford was testifying, answering all the questions, trying to be particularly substantive in her and says and when i saw brett kavanaugh aggressive, her and says and when i saw brett kava naugh aggressive, political, sexist, the way we have seen them before, i'm hinged, angry, crying, had she done anything like that, she would have been discarded as a credible witness altogether

marked... very little about his judicial qualifications, but rather about how he liked the air, how many times did he mention how much he liked beer. this was really offensive. i don't think he belongs even on the circuit court district court. thank you so much forjoining us. let's get more on this from our political analyst and former advisor to george w bush ron christie who supports the kavanaugh nomination. thank you from joining us. i want to pick it up on the issue of demeanour. we have had contemporaries ofjudge kavanaugh from yale university who have come out and spoken about the degree of drinking that he remembers, that was waddington, when they were at together. when you see this and comparator what the judiciary committee was told on thursday,

there does seem to be a difference. is he being honest with the committee? yes, i do think he is being honest with the committee. having gone through an fbi background check myself, i can tell you, they go back to friends from elementary school, high school, couege elementary school, high school, college and pick up on just this kind of enquiry. did he drink a lot in college? was he a stumbling drunk? was he like that in law school? the notion people will come forward and say maybe the fbi did not investigated properly is misplaced. these are exactly the type of character questions they ask. interesting you say that, as they drank the former fbi official about background checks and whether one into brett kavanaugh could have missed things that happened and he said yes they could have done because they only go back actually, depending on how recently you are having your background check and brett kava naugh‘s first having your background check and brett kavanaugh‘s first background check would have been way at the

university so they may not have gone back to his high school days. he sighed the leg said he was worried categorical that they could have missed this. they go all the way back to primary school and move forward. what you get a second fbi background check, they pick up on your last time the bia completed an investigation to his third one i think would be the most comprehensive as to his conduct when he was a younger man, some 30 years ago. the problem the democrats have is this. they are going to interview deborah ramires, but they did on sunday, she said brett kavanaugh revealed himself in a vulgar way and there are people who will be able to corroborate that. the only way you can even say whether that is true is every speak to the corroborating witnesses. you cannot just every speak to the corroborating witnesses. you cannotjust be to her and that is why people are concerned that the extent of the investigators got enough. yelena good evening to you. this is why people are so

cynical with politics in the united states. the democrats made it specifically clear that we want to have a one—week investigation, talk to some people and that agreement was signed off by a republican and democrat in thejudiciary committee. i knew the second i heard that that one week would not be enough, we need five witnesses, maybe ten, maybe 20. if you are going to inject cynicism into our system of politics, question, the more the democrats call for an extension or delay, the american people will be more cynical because that was the agreement that was agreed upon. thank you very much forjoining us there. two issues here, clearly one is about the timing of it all and most democrats think one week is ok, the senate and we had on the programme said so as well, the concern is the number of people, as you suggested, that are being investigated. there is a lot of cynicism and we know it is very partisan but really

it does not matter what anyone thinks about from five people. let's put them up here. there is jeff fla ke let's put them up here. there is jeff flake who took some cajoling from his committee colleagues and there are the two democrats from red states, it really matters what they think because it is on the senate floor and they have two vote on it. in the early indications are that from the more moderate republican senator from maine who from the more moderate republican senatorfrom maine who is under pressure from this vote, that she is very glad the fbi investigation is taking place and we are not hearing from those wavering republicans that they are not satisfied with the scope of it and that, in the end, is what you said will be what determines where the vote goes. let's move on from american politics because desperate attempts, and we should look at indonesia now, are made when it comes to the people who

are trapped in the earthquake. desperate attempts are being made to reach people trapped under buildings — following the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia. at least 844 people are known to have died — but rescuers say the final figure could be in the thousands. the bbc has learnt that the country's tsunami warning system — a series of buoys in the sea set up to detect high waves — was not working. from palu, our correspondent rebecca henschke sent this report from above, you get a sense of the scale of the destruction here in palu and the huge task for rescue workers. more than a8,000 people are unable to return to their homes, many of which lie in rubble. this used to be a road, the residents say the ground rose several metres, swallowing homes and leaving huge riffs along it. the soil somehow rose up and buried your houses. i said in my heart, this is the time i die, what more can i do? i prayed to god. when

the huge waves hit the coast, this woman picked up her two youngest children and ran. translation: we ranfar children and ran. translation: we ran far lives, the waves taking us, it isa ran far lives, the waves taking us, it is a race between us and the waves. it is like a bad dream. when will help arrived? when will the governments pay attention to us? there are turning to creative way to get their helpful —— plea for help out. the family painted this sign that says brave palu, we missed our home and we need help. in an attempt to try and get attention from passers—by. there is talent entered its fourth day without power and clea n its fourth day without power and clean water, people are getting desperate. the city is almost out of petrol. people are queueing for hours for what little is left. there is no electricity, signal a0 minute

nations or gas. people are queueing for this and especially supplies of food and —— supplies of food are very limited. desperate people are now trying to salvage anything of worth from the debris and judaea has been more looting as people take what they need. that lack today there has been more looting. —— today there has been more looting. people are coming in to get equipment from their shop, you can see stuff in the rubble. residents say there are also dead bodies here but they cannot retrieve them. there is also a smell of decaying corpses in the air. up in the hills, authorities have done the leg dug mass of bodies should be buried here in an attempt to stop the spread of mass disease. as things worsen, people are desperately trying to get out. crowds flooding the small,

damaged airport in palu hoping to getan damaged airport in palu hoping to get an limited military and commercialflights get an limited military and commercial flights to nearby cities. and our correspondent jonathan head is also in palu, he filed this update a short time ago. i think there is hope, it's not cold here. there are vast numbers of people who were buried by the earthquake, who were not necessarily hit by the wave, when that happened, very few people survived. the areas hit by the wave arejustappalling, i mean, just dreadful sort of scenes of absolute, complete and total destruction. i think there needs to be a more systematic effort by the authorities, if they are going to find people who might still be alive, it's all a bit haphazard, there aren't really enough people here, there aren't clear people in charge. there are a lot of volunteers coming in but in terms of a functioning town, it has ceased to function at all. there are no normal services and the living themselves are without absolutely anything, i mean, its extraordinary to see people rushing up your car and begging you for water. there's no drinking water.

they've got no power. it is absolutely desperate and part of the problem is, this is a very isolated place and it took me 21 hours to drive here today. the airport is damaged, it's very hard to get aid in and yet you would think by now the government would be prioritising some absolute basic essentials. we're not seeing very much of it. there is an awful lot of people being left completely on their own and there is a very, very desperate atmosphere here, people really feel abandoned. i think they willjudge the government very harshly if it can't speed things up. there's always this complaint every time there's a disaster about aid, but this one, it does feel as if very little is being done up to now. iam i am slightly incredulous having been someone who reported the four ona similar been someone who reported the four on a similar disaster that they have not got this up and running because that was the priority, they have these buoys of the day, there was

supposed to be an early warning mechanism the sirens going off along the beach so everyone pulls off into higher ground, communications go off in mobile phones and apparently the prototype that was developed in the united states was not implement it because they were $10a,000 short locally. yes, and authorities are saying the warning system did go off, the sirens went off for 30 minutes, there was some debate about whether they were turned off to early but they underestimated the size of the ways of the 0.5 metres but it was up to six metres high in some places but the problem was people were not getting text m essa 9 es people were not getting text messages there was no power in the mitigation detectors and the silent 0h mitigation detectors and the silent on the beach, people did not hear it because the alarms were only going for a site time but the priority from the reporting, took in 21 hours to get there, that tells you how ha rd to get there, that tells you how hard this places to access money have to get water into those people

as soon as possible. the lights of the las vegas strip will be turned off this evening as the city remembers the victims of the mass shooting a year ago. the lights will be dimmed at 10:01pm, the time the attack began, and the names of 58 people who died will be read out. on oct ist last year, thousands of people were in las vegas for the route 91 harvest music festival. the gunman stephen paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the nearby mandalay bay hotel. our correspondent clive myrie who covered the story last year has been back to speak to survivors. no other modern democracy venerates the gun as highly as america, and no other country pays such a heavy price. the bullet went through my chest and through my stomach. my liver, my spleen. i can hear the sounds, i can feel the bullets. the bullets were six inches from my head. this is a story not about the dead but about those who lived. meet rosemary.

a survivor of the worst mass shooting in american history. for close to one year, her home has been this hospital room because of a gunmen‘s bullet. there were times when i thought i don't have the strength because sometimes i felt so weak and my husband stayed. he's the one that gave me the strength. to get through. because there were so many nights and days i did not know because i just didn't feel good. it was a present from her daughters. an evening at a country music festival. gunshots. panic. a man high up in a hotel nearby is firing round after round. he kills 58 but, for every minute he is firing, he injures more. —— he kills 58 but, for every minute

he is firing, he injures a0 more. ten minutes passed before he stops. the dead are buried and mourned, yet the injured carry a special burden. as do those they love. i need to remove a small piece of her intestines. rosemary's doctor matthewjohnson understands the continuing traumas once wounds heal. their whole lives get changed. that does not even include the psychological injuries. it can affect your whole way of life, you can't work, the normaljob you used to work, if you don't have disability insurance them, i mean, you could end up on the streets. i arrived in las vegas the day after the shooting to report on the tragedy last year and many of the billboards here on the main strip were carrying words of condolence. by the time i left, a8 hours later, those words had disappeared and it was back to selling as usual.

you are looking at live pictures, there is an active shooter... people die and america moves on. but some can't do that. i used to watch these shootings on tv before it happened to me. it is another level to have gone through one. and then to have it happen, it's like a punch in the soul. with every mass shooting, lisa revisits that night in vegas. it knocks you back again and you can feel it, see it, smell it, all of it. knowing, the sadness of knowing what those victims are going to go through. the many tens of thousands injured every year in gun related incidents are america's dirty secret. they live changed, quiet lives, paying the price for this country's love affair with guns. we have speaking a lot that we have

been speaking a lot, but everyone says they do not ever forget the moment the shooting starts, where they were, how they got out of it and we hear about these a lot and there are just too many of them. every month it seems like it in this country. the prime minister of macedonia has vowed to push on with plans to change the country's name to north macedonia. over 90% of voters backed the name change in a referendum on sunday however, as only a third of macedonians took part, the vote is considered invalid. the aim of the name change is to end a dispute with greece, which has a region called macedonia. prime minister zoran zaev will need the support of two—thirds of his mps in order to confirm the result. tens of thousands of catalans have taken to the streets of barcelona to mark the one year anniversary of the region's independence referendum. crowds of pro—independence students marched through the city, demanding recognition of the vote which took place last year. elsewhere in the region,

protestors attempted to block roads and train tracks. madrid imposed direct rule on catalonia after it declared independence following the referendum. high street restaurant chains will be forced to let staff keep their tips under plans to be announced by theresa may. the prime minister wants to introduce a new law to stop employers making deductions from tips left by customers. in recent years, some restaurants have come under fire from unions for deducting up to ten percent of tips in administration fees. this seems fair. the whole point of eight hit rate is ukip the person serving you as a moment of respect —— the reason you give a tip is to give respect to the person who has given you good sellers. now you get help .5% here on your bill as a service charge or a tip you can opt into when you pay electronically via ca rd into when you pay electronically via card and a lot of people think, hang

on, is the restaurant taking that or the bar? are they skinning of the top? a lot of people say they will not do that but they do give cash which is a way of self—regulating but the problem is if you are in a restau ra nt, but the problem is if you are in a restaurant, there is a sous chef, chef, glass collector, barman and eve ryo he chef, glass collector, barman and everyone else involved and there is a system which is a group system that everyone benefits from the tip system and if you pay the waiter or waitress, it might go directly into their pocket but it is all done, this, because it is so unfair as there is not a simple rule regulating that it should be saved for the staff so i'm in favour of this. if they said you know when you're paying a chronically or your 12.5% that it you're paying a chronically or your i2.5% that it goes directly to the staff making it a great experience, you would pay it. —— paying electronically. you would do it through the electronic systems. girl—mac there is a different tipping system here because 20% is

basically mandatory for any restau ra nt basically mandatory for any restaurant experience you have, no dependence on how good or bad it is, you get 20% but what is behind what is happening here or there is one way around it would be to pay restau ra nt way around it would be to pay restaurant staff better way around it would be to pay restau ra nt staff better a nd way around it would be to pay restaurant staff better and you could take the whole tipping system which can be tricky for customers. the ukip when you get a copy or a take—out? what the ukip when you get a copy or a ta ke—out? what is the ukip when you get a copy or a take—out? what is the system pars —— do you tip when you get a?|j take—out? what is the system pars —— do you tip when you get a? i always feel like a cheapskate and i go to america because we do io—i2.5% but in america it is 20%. remind me to do it when you come here or we will get thrown out. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — president trump hails a new trade deal with mexico and canada as historic news for the us and the rest of the world. that's still to come. good evening. things will be

chopping and changing over the next few days. many places started today with some sunshine. this was swansea earlier. our weather watch in cumbria have captured this, it has been clouding over from the north—west and as you can see, we have a real string of clouds now piling its way in from the atlantic. associated with a frontal system, various frontal systems, strong back out into the middle of the atlantic. to the south of these weather front, some warm air, to the south, some cool air some warm air, to the south, some coolairand as some warm air, to the south, some cool air and as they wriggle around, we feel the effects of both. during the night, mostly warm air coming in with outbreaks of rain. especially towards the south, not a particularly chilly night but further north, where we keep the clear skies and you might expect the temperatures to get away, they will not cause of the strength of the

wind. it turns windy in northern areas of the country as he had to choose they whereas further south the crowd that building from the atlantic, quite a moist air, make things down quite misty and murky, maybe drizzly as well for parts of wales and the south—west. conversely, breaks up towards the midlands and south east and breezy sunshine, with the warm air, we could get 21 celsius often a fair amount of cloud into ireland, northern england and scotland as well seeing that but we could see some gusts the further into the north of scotland, even as much a 60 mph and a touch more in the most exposed spots. these winds will ease as he had into wednesday. this next frontal system pushes in from the south—west. remember, to the south of these, we have some warm, moist air isa of these, we have some warm, moist air is a lot of cloud eating its way in as they go through the day on wednesday. summer break greater brain, especially across the north—west and a relatively warm feel to the weather, 12—19, maybe

even 20 celsius. on thursday, starting out with fairly dense fog patches to the south and for much of england and wales, even maybe part of scotland, some cloud outbreaks of rain and in the warm air, those damages do well for the town of year. heading towards the weekend that uncertainty any forecast. the chance of heavy rain but some sunshine, too. this is beyond 100 days. with me katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. our top stories — a former classmate of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh says the judge lied under oath about his drinking habits. president trump heralds a new trade deal to replace nafta — the pact he openly hated — after intense negotations with canada. coming up in the next half hour: it's time for eu to get serious on brexit, says the uk minister responsible for brexit — intensifying the government's criticism over the current state of play. plus — the italian scientist causing

outrage over his claim that ‘physics was invented by men'. we'll bring you the fallout. the united states, canada and mexico finalized a sweeping new trade deal last night just hours before the oct ist deadline. the north american free trade agreement, will no longer be called nafta, an ancronym the president hated, instead it will be known as the us — mca, the united states—mexico—canada agreement. it s not a total trade revolution, as president trump would have us believe but it is nonetheless another campaign promise delivered and there are reasons for us. farmers and blue—collar workers to be happy. and faced with the alternative — no agreement — the markets have also responded positively, the dow is up more than 250 points. here's the president a little earlier. this deal will also impose new

standards requiring at least 25% of every automobile to be made in north america in order to qualify for the privilege of free access to our markets. that's what it is, it's a privilege. we don't take it as a privilege. we don't take it as a privilege. it's a privilege for them to do business with us. i'm not talking about mexico, i'm talking about everybody. everybody. so what kind of change will it deliver? joining us now from new york is our business correspondent kim gittleson. we know the president was insisted it had to have a new name, he did not like nafta. this had to be something else beyond the change in name. what else does it change? us mca rolls off the tongue... it will not significantly impact the economic picture here in north america and mexico because it keeps

largely intact the main outlines of that free trade agreement signed between the us, mexico and canada in the 90s. there are two key differences. the first is concessions the trump administration brought from mexico when it comes to the percentage of automobiles that will be manufactured either here in the us, canada or mexico. there's a certain percentage of parts, 75% that now must come from one of the three countries. the second thing is when it comes to canada, they relented on a key demand which was that president donald trump wanted to see american dairy farmers selling for their products into canada, they had had strict quotas when it came to that. they have decided there will in fact allow for american farmers to sell their dairy into the nation and as a result that sort of plea has please donald trump because it allows him to talk to his base of farmers in the midwest. that phrase from donald trump about it being a privilege for countries to trade with the united states, of

course trade goes both ways, the us needs to trade with other countries too but it struck me that kind of encapsulates donald trump's view of america's trading relationship with other countries, notjust america's trading relationship with other countries, not just canada america's trading relationship with other countries, notjust canada and mexico but other countries around the world. he has touted his america first trading policy since day one, he wants to see better trade deals that reinvigorate manufacturing, the farm sector here in the us. in this insta nce farm sector here in the us. in this instance this is seen as something that will help american, common factor is, we saw general motors and ford have seen their shares increased significantly since the deal was announced. that's because it encourages not just deal was announced. that's because it encourages notjust a significant proportion of these cars manufactured in one of the countries having parts that are created here, it also when it comes to mexico, insists that there is a certain percentage of labour that must come from so—called high wage factories. that is seen as something that will help american labour unions here. justin trudeau we had just seen in the pictures is back in the circle

of trust, the three amigos back together again. he has said removing steel and aluminium tax, just in the last few minutes, removing steel and aluminium tariffs remains a priority for canada. how will he do that? that was quite interesting. that's why many people have framed the deal as being something that was a boon to president donald trump, was calendar made quite a few concessions and they did not insist the steel and aluminium tariffs be removed. this was something that led to the war of words between true and trump earlier this year, once those ta riffs went trump earlier this year, once those tariffs went into effect. it remains to be seen how canada will get the us to remove those tariffs which are significantly impacting trade between the two countries when it comes to steel and aluminium, both of the industries had been significantly impacted as a result of those tariffs. thank you. the mexicans also worried about those tariffs, they raise that in that

press co nfe re nce . philip hammond believes a brexit deal with the eu will deliver a boost to the british economy. in his speech to the conservative party's annual conference today the chancellor said a "deal dividend" was within the uk's grasp, but only if theresa may's critics drop their opposition to the chequers blueprint. in his speech, the brexit secretary dominic raab warned the eu that britain is ready to walk away from the brexit negotiations unless the eu softens their demands. take a listen. our prime minister has been constructive and respectful. in return, we heard jibes from senior leaders and we saw a stark one—sided approach to negotiation where the eu's theological approach allows no room for serious compromise and yet we are expected to cast aside the territorial integrity of our own country. if the eu want a deal, they need to get serious and they need to do it now. our chief political correspondent vicki young is in birmingham at the conservative party conference and we can speak to her now.

ido i do get the sense that theyjust wa nt to i do get the sense that theyjust want to get past this week and get onto the negotiation in a couple of weeks' time, really brexit for all the talk about other things is the elephant in the room? that is totally the case. because of where we are in those brexit negotiations, coming up in a couple of weeks you have an eu summit, there may be an emergency summit and all the time that deadline looming. that is absolutely what it feels like. they wa nt to absolutely what it feels like. they want to get through, in the main conference all dominic ryan had to speak about brexit obviously, that his mainjob but philip hammond did not spend much time talking about it. -- not spend much time talking about it. —— dominick rather had to speak speak about brexit. in the hall, it's about calls for unity, saying they must be tolerant of each other‘s views on brexit but there is none of that on the fringe. outside is very difficult to get any

of the meetings being run by brexiteers. they even have an alternative conference which they are all apps. there they are singing are all apps. there they are singing a different tune. there are calling her plan, her so—called cheque plan brexit a gas leak cockroach. —— hurt so—called chequers plan a ghastly cockroach. i believe it is the prime minister's birthday, she is 62. you should never mention a woman's age but here it is. she has been given bya but here it is. she has been given by a former tory donor michael spencer saying she has lost their way. i think his main concern as a businessman is that the conservative party will no longer be considered the party of enterprise or business. i think that is a problem for the party which other people are realising. because of brexit and the

uncertainty that is bringing in the short term, there will be problems for business. they don't like the delay or the uncertainty. will they lose the conservatives, that reputation for economic mobility? what's very interesting as there are other backbench mps see all talking about what else can we talk about? the beyond brexit, if you like, how else can they get their message across and some of them are concerned about what they heard at the labour conference. they think although it's not the answer is, the labour party are talking about what people care about. many here say the conservative party has lost its way and one tory mps saying, it's facing dark days if it does not start addressing ‘s concerns. dark days if it does not start addressing 's concernslj dark days if it does not start addressing 's concerns. i apologise for christian raising a woman's age because he will be asking yours next if he gets half a chance. because he will be asking yours next if he gets half a chancel because he will be asking yours next if he gets half a chance. i am not going to answer! join another club. the perception here is we have a country facing an enormous internal

crisis to the extent that it is stopping britain from being able to focus on anything else at all. britain is basically not a player on global issues because brexit is all consuming. the impression i get from the party conference is it's not just their brexit is all consuming but the internal divisions within the tory party and the threats to the tory party and the threats to the prime minister's leadership make this a distraction. —— a triple distraction for the tory party to deal with. i think that is the case, even though theresa may has said she wa nts to even though theresa may has said she wants to lead the party into the next election, not scheduled till 2022, there are not many privately who think that will happen. not only the uncertainty over brexit which of course is consuming ministerial time, the time of civil servants, airtime of course, that's what eve ryo he airtime of course, that's what everyone is talking about. there is this question over leadership. what will not calm things down is tomorrow, guess who arrives? boris johnson. he will address a rally,

only for one day but that meeting will have over 1000 people in it where he will get again say he com pletely where he will get again say he completely disagrees with their direction government is going in. that's not going to make things any,. exactly the kind of birthday present the prime minister would like, borisjohnson turning up at her birthday party. otto warmbier, the american college student the north koreans had imprisoned for more than a year, was sent home in a coma and died a few days after his arrival back in the united states. at the time donald trump railed against the brutality of a north korean government that lacked in his words basic human decency". but this weekend at a rally in west virginia the president told his audience that he had fallen "in love" with kimjung un over his beautiful letters. i was really being tough and so rosy. we would go back and forth and then we fell in love, ok? ok? no, really. he wrote the beautiful letters a nd really. he wrote the beautiful letters and a great letters. we fell in love. but you know what? they

will say, donald trump said they fell in love! how horrible! how horrible is that! so unpresidential. worth reiterating that for all the love that is being shared kimjung un is yet to comply with donald trump s request for a complete inventory of his country s weapons programme. and speaking at the un general assembly on saturday, a north korean representative said the nation will not stand down its nuclear weapons until it has sufficient trust in the us. there is always this danger that you ta ke there is always this danger that you take the president literally rather than seriously. he says he has created a relationship but if he is talking in that way, does it undermine america's observation of human rights around the world? well, just imagine if barack obama had spokenin just imagine if barack obama had spoken in that way. he would be slammed for saying something like that about kim jong—un because until recently the stress that people talked about with kim jong—un was the nuclear programme but also human rights abuses and people being sent

to concentration camps effectively in north korea. that was a thorn in the relationship as well. you don't hear about that now. if he's going to get a nuclear deal done, that is the calculation the president is making, that it's worth sacrificing criticism of human rights in order to get this critical nuclear deal he hopes he will get. as you say, it he's not going to get that deal than this start sounding a bit odd. he is kind of meta about this, you could hear him talking about it, realising the criticism and then making a joke about as well. interesting how much his supporters in the raleigh cheered him on when he was talking about that. the difficulty is he is urging china and russia to stick tight on sanctions and take a hard line and yet he is saying i'm in love with kim jong—un and that will be taken literally in beijing and moscow, wouldn't it?|j be taken literally in beijing and moscow, wouldn't it? i think eve ryo he moscow, wouldn't it? i think everyone realises that can change the donald trump, he will say one thing and then changes opinion if you need to do to get the result he once state on. this is beyond 100 days. still to come "physics was built by men." that's the view

of one senior italian scientist who sparked fury with his comments at a seminar on gender issues in physics. we'll speak to another scientist who was listening to that lecture. the bbc series, blue planet 2, revealed the extent of plastic in our oceans — and the threat to wildlife that it poses. 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. a team of volunteers in hampshire has discovered thousands of tiny plastic pellets washed up on a beach near portsmouth — as duncan kennedy reports. they're called nurdles. tiny plastic pellets that have washed up in their thousands on this hampshire beach. so many, in fact, that volunteers have collected more than 20 sacks full of them. millions of them, and we couldn't physically sit here and pick them all up...

they include bianca carr, who says the nurdles are used by industry to make everything from bin liners to bottles. and to give you an idea ofjust how bad the problem is here, take a look at this jar. no—one knows where these tiny white nurdles have come from. we're horrified by what we saw, in terms of all of these tiny, tiny plastic nurdles, which are about the size of a lentil and they're used in plastic manufacturing. they are everywhere around here. all around the shoreline. the discovery in hampshire coincides with tonight's documentary on the wider problem of plastic pollution. this is a river in indonesia. oh, look at that, yeah.... while this is howe island, off australia, and the shocking discovery of what this bird has ingested. 0h! look at that. stomach full of plastic. one, two, three, four, five... 16 pieces of plastic. oh, look at that. yeah. six years ago, this wasn't snow in the pacific, but more nurdles, washed up in a typhoon. volunteers everywhere are cleaning up a worldwide deluge of plastic,

but from hong kong... to hampshire, our seas, rivers and oceans remain in a fragile struggle with human activity. duncan kennedy, bbc news, on hayling island. our love of social media seems to have grown and grown in the past decade, but recent studies show the tide may be turning. as part of a public mental health campaign people are being urged to take a break from their devices altogether. volunteers of the first—ever scroll free september campaign have been reflecting on how it feels to go "cold turkey" on social media. graham satchell has been speaking to one of them. you get so consumed with just scrolling, and itjust never stops, so you're just there

scrolling and scrolling. i'd say on average i spend about a—5 hours on my phone, on social media, every day, on average, i think. i'm anya, i'm16, and i havejust finished scroll free september. have you seen this story? i haven't. i find it so rude when people are on their phones while they're talking to you. the biology — did you do the biology properly? yeah, sure, ok. i find it so rude. there's no quality conversation, and you feel like you're not being listened to. ooh, i have a snapchat, ooh! social medias i use the most were snapchat, twitter, instagram and facebook. snapchat to talk to my friends, and then instagram and twitter to get, like, my news and celebrity gossip. i think group chats is the thing i've missed the most. and on twitter, just scrolling through and seeing the news, and all, i've missed that as well. but it's also been a nice break,

because it all can get quite intense at some times. so, like, staying back out of it also feels quite relaxing, almost, and i've been focusing more on my schoolwork. i think the family have loved it, because instead of me sitting in my room, i've been coming down and sitting with them more. oh, my god... make sure it doesn't stick to the bottom. since you've been off social media, so much more laughs together, and so much more fun. i think it's definitely a good thing to do, cos you're not addicted to your phone. you're having good quality conversations. you can live life without social media. it's not, like, the number one thing in the world. but i definitely am so happy to be back online, and up—to—date with everything. we had a no social media sunday the other week, but all

the phones in the glove box. we went for a pizza with a mate, somebody said something and then everybody grabbed their phone to research it to see if it's true. it's impossible! laughter anyway... if you can't do it, imagine if you are ten or11. a leading italian scientist has caused outrage by claiming 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. the professor also said male scientists produce better research than females. the organisers have described the comments as ‘highly offensive' and have suspended him from any activity at cern, pending an investigation into last week s event. cern said, in a tweet, that it supports many members of the community who have expressed their indignation. 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 string theory and 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 a%. 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. drjessica wade was at the presentation and has

spoken out about what she heard. shejoined us earlier. listening to the professor there, he seems to have gone away and done some research on this and come to a very specific conclusion. what conclusion has he come to and is it based on any fact? i think his research is leading him to the conclusion or he's stating that women are worse at physics and are disproportionately awarded grant funding and also senior positions within universities and in research centres, maybe like son. i don't think that his way of doing the evaluation is right. he uses the number of academic citations over time asa number of academic citations over time as a metric for how good a scientist is. unfortunately there is awful lot of bias in the academic citation process. in peer review in general there is a lot of bias against women and against non—western scientists. the number

of times those publications are cited as also biased against women is actually men's sight men more often, they also cite themselves more often. if this historical representation of —— underrepresentation of women in science, they are not able to have this influence on publishing or careers. the way he chooses to evaluate women's ability in physics particularly is really bizarre. the sources he cites and the claims he makes are just so damaging to the whole community. my daughter is a ph.d. student in the physics department and university of michigan and there her how many women there were in the apartment, she said its 20% overall and its 26% in her ear. they are actively trying to increase the number of women in physics but i think the problem sta rts physics but i think the problem starts much younger than age of 18 when the blood choosing what degrees to do. you must reach out to them when they are ten, 11, 12 to get girls to carry on doing sciences.

when they are ten, 11, 12 to get girls to carry on doing scienceslj girls to carry on doing sciences.” com pletely girls to carry on doing sciences.” completely agree. lots of the work from the of physics here and in america is looking at how we can look at how these gender stereotypes within education and really tried to identify what's stopping girls from doing physics because we know when they studied physics, they are exceptional at it. they do want to have really great this successful research careers in it so it's looking at why some of them aren't using it in the first place and really trying to work with teachers and parents to eliminate the stereotypes they can have these kind of careers. i'm sure your daughter is really enjoying it. these are the most exciting jobs we can do, it's the most exciting research i could be doing and i want everyone to have that opportunity. you were tweeting at the weekend, i could see how angry you were. he wrote in a tweet i will probably get in trouble for this, you fearful because you are only on a short—term contract that if you speak out you won't get a job? that probably happens more often than it should. lots of the audience, the majority of the

audience, the majority of the audience on they were early career researchers in high—energy physics, in theoretical high energy physics which is very small area, a very niche area of expertise. when you see people in senior positions with the kind of opinions that was spoken about at at that conference and the one i was tweeting about, you get the bulk of the future of your own career. we are on two to three year contracts and the decisions of our future are ultimately decided by an increasingly small number of really successful scientists and when you hear things like this, it's quite frightening. you said your daughter's class or year had around 20% in physics. that maryse with these statistics here, only 20% of a—level physics students are girls and that figure has not changed in 25 years. that really is depressing. i know schools are making an effort, certainly hear a big effort to have outreach in those years when girls stop doing science to get them to do

more. just before we go, we are getting breaking news from cbs, quoting justice department officials saying the white house has authorised the fbi to expand as investigation of sexual assault charges, they can now interview anyone they need to on those sexual assault charges. it does not seem the investigation has been expanded to cover perjury though. just news coming in on that brett kavanaugh investigation. plenty more tomorrow. things will be chopping and changing a bit over the next few days. many places started off with some sunshine. that was how it looked in swa nsea sunshine. that was how it looked in swansea but our weather watcher in cumbria has captured this, clouding over from the north—west. cumbria has captured this, clouding overfrom the north—west. we cumbria has captured this, clouding over from the north—west. we have a real string of cloud piling in from the atlantic now. associated with a frontal system, various frontal

systems strong back out into the middle of the atlantic, to the south there will be warmer, to the north cooler air. as the fronts wriggle around we will feel the effects of both. during tonight, mostly warm at bringing in with this cloud and these outbreaks of rain will stop down towards the south, it will not bea down towards the south, it will not be a particularly chilly night. even further north, where we keep some clear skies and you might expect the temperatures to give away, they won't particularly because of the strength of the wind. it will be windy across the north into tuesday. further south, we will have that cloud spilling in from the atlantic. it's quite likely to turn misty and murky, conversely if the cloud brea ks murky, conversely if the cloud breaks up towards the midlands and the south—east, we will see some sunshine without warmer, possibly getting to 20 or 21 degrees. cloud into northern ireland, england and

scotla nd into northern ireland, england and scotland see sunshine, showers across the far north but these black winged arrows are the gusts can expect. we could see gusts of 50 to 60 in the far north, perhaps even more in the most exposed spots. those winds will ease as we head into wednesday. we see this next frontal system pushing in from the south—west, to the south we have some fairly warm air, moist air as well. lots of cloud seeding in as we go through the day on wednesday. outbreaks of rain especially across the north—west. a relatively warm feel to the weather, 12 to 19, maybe 20. on thursday, some fairly dense fog across the south, then for much in england and wales are fine day. more cloud outbreaks of rain, and again warm air. temperatures is doing fairly well for the time of year. doing fairly well for the time of yea r. towards doing fairly well for the time of year. towards weekend, uncertainty in the forecast, rain but sunshine too. this is bbc news i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at eight.

two hundred thousand people need help urgently — according to the united nations — after the earthquake and tsunami that struck an indonesian island. this town enters its fourth day without power and clean water. people are getting desperate. the chancellor urges conservative party members to get behind theresa may's plan for brexit, and remains confident she will strike a deal with the eu. when the prime minister gets a deal agreed, there will be a boost to our economic growth. a deal dividend. president trump insists he wants a comprehensive fbi investigation into sexual assault allegations against his supreme court nominee — brett kavanaugh.