to increase significa ntly. this town enters its fourth day without power and clean water. people are getting desperate. in some areas where aid agencies are struggling to reach, the need for basic supplies is now acute. there's no signal for communications, and even, you know, gas... everyone‘s queueing for this, and especially supply of food. we'll have two reports from the region and we'll be looking at the state of the aid effort. also tonight... judge brett kavanaugh the supreme court nominee should face a full fbi investigation into allegations of sexual assault according to president trump. one year after the worst mass—shooting in us history we return to las vegas to talk to some of the survivors. it's been hard. i've already had six surgeries, just in the last few months. and trying to... i want to be able to feel normal again. the plastic menace discovered

on england's south coast the extent of the problem has taken experts by surprise. # she may be the reason i survive... # and after a career spanning eight decades, the french entertainer, charles aznavour, has died prompting tributes from around the world. and, coming up on sportsday on bbc news: a big week forjose mourinho and manchester united, after their worst start to a league season in 29 years. can they bounce back in europe? good evening. more than 200,000 people are now in need of urgent help following the earthquake and tsunami, which struck parts of indonesia three days ago.

at least 850 people are confirmed dead, but that number is expected to rise significantly. large parts of the coastline of the island of sulawesi were destroyed by the earthquake which registered 7.5. many areas outside the main city of palu are still cut off. rescue teams are calling for heavy lifting equipment, and more qualified staff to search for survivors, as our correspondent rebecca henschke reports. from above, you get a sense of the scale of the destruction here in palu, and the huge task for rescue workers. in palu, 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 rifts along it. translation: the soil somehowjust rose up and buried the houses. in my heart i said, "if this is the time i die,

what more can i do?" ijust prayed to god. when the huge waves hit the coast, this woman picked up her two youngest children and ran. translation: we were running for our lives. the waves chasing us. it was a race between us and the waves. it's like a bad dream. when is help going to arrive, when will the government pay attention to us? they're turning to creative ways to get their plea for help out. herfamily has painted this sign. it says, "pray for palu, we miss our home and we need help", in an attempt to try and get attention from passers—by. this town entered its fourth day without power and clean water, people are getting desperate. the city is almost out of petrol, with people queueing for hours for what little is left.

electricity, there's no signal for communications, and even, you know, gas... everyone's queueing for this, and especially supply of food, it's very limited, you know? desperate people are now trying to salvage anything of worth from the debris, and today, there has been more looting, as people take what they need. this was a building shop, so people have been coming in to take equipment from it. you can see things like children's doonas and pillows also amongst the rubble. residents say there's also dead bodies here, that they can't retrieve, and there is a smell of decaying corpses in the air. up in the hills, authorities have dug mass graves, enough for thousands of bodies, in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.

as things worsen, people are desperately trying to get out. crowds flooding the small damaged airport in palu, hoping to get on limited military and commercial flights to nearby cities. rebecca henschke, bbc news, palu. that's the situation in one of the worst—affected areas, but a few hundred miles to the south of palu, a large part of the aid effort is being co—ordinated in makassar, where many evacuees have also been arriving. in a moment, we'll hear from our correspondent in makassar, nick beake, but earlier we spoke to our south east asia correspondent jonathan head in palu, who gave us his assessment of the situation there. the areas hit by the wave arejust appalling. i mean, just dreadful 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 clearly people in charge. there are lots of volunteers coming in, but, in terms of a functioning town, palu has ceased to function at all. there is no normal services, and the living themselves are without absolutely anything. it's extraordinary to meet people come rushing up to your car and begging you for water. there's no drinking water, they've got no power. it is absolutely desperate. part of the problem is, this is a very, very isolated place. it took me 21 hours to drive here today. the airport is, as rebecca said, 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 are an awful lot of people being left completely on their own and there's a very, very desperate atmosphere here. people really feel abandoned. i think they willjudge the government very harshly if they 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 though very little's been done up till now. jonathan head. now we can speak to

oui’ jonathan head. now we can speak to our correspondent nick beek, to talk about the effort, what do you make of the level of support they are getting there now? this place is the biggest indication of the level of support that indonesians are offering to the victims of this disaster. all of the aid in this room is donated just today, would you believe it. there are toiletries here, food is stacked up. they are going through the clouds separating from men, women and children. they have been working through the night. i asked one man why he's doing this and he said there are brothers and sisters, we have to help them in their hour of need. but the reality is, as we had from jonathan. this is not high—tech medical equipment and there is a feeling that all of this could be too little too late. this is not machinery, this is not diggers which week could use to price people from the rubble and

there is a growing fear here, a reality in fact, that many people wait —— people may have survived the earthquake that perished whilst for help to ride. thank you. president trump has said he wants a comprehensive fbi investigation into historic allegations of sexual assault againstjudge brett kavanaugh — the man he's nominated for a seat on the us supreme court. brett kavanaugh has faced allegations of assault by several women which he has denied, but today a former classmate of his said he was not telling the truth about his drinking in the past. our north america editorjon sopel reports from washington. after the traumatic "she said" and the defiant "he said" and the bitter division over the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court, the fbi has now been given a week to investigate the allegations. but at a rose garden news conference, the president was repeatedly asked —

would investigators be free to talk to whoever they liked? i think the fbi should interview anybody that they want, within reason. but you have to say within reason. they should interview, but they should also be guided, and i'm being guided, by what the senators are looking for, because they have to make the choice. the president told me he still had an open mind onjudge kavanaugh. mr president, if the fbi does find something and brett kavanaugh falls, is that a plan b? i don't want to talk about plan b, because i think, i hope that he gets approved. i hope that the report comes out like it should, like i really think it should, like it will, i hope. i hope. but look, i'm waiting, just like you. certainly, if they find something, i'm going to take that into consideration. absolutely. i have a very open mind. a prosecutor engaged by the republicans on the committee to question doctor christine blase ford has written to senators saying that in her legal judgment,

because of the "he said" "she said" nature of the claims... sometimes we had too many beers, and sometimes other people had too many beers. we drank beer, we liked beer. but a college mate of brett kavanaugh has also come forward, to say that the judge wasn't being honest when he spoke under oath about his drinking. and on the subject of drinking, the teetotal president cracked a joke — at his own expense. i can honestly say i never had a beer in my life, ok? right. it's one of my only good traits. i don't drink. can you imagine if i had, what a mess i'd be? i'd be the world's worst!

the supreme court opened a new session today, still one person short, still far from clear that brett kavanagh will be the ninthjustice. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. the clock is now ticking on that fbi investigation. they have until friday. it seemed today donald trump gave them wider scope to go where they wanted an interview who they wa nted they wanted an interview who they wanted as part of this investigation. i think that is leaving republicans on capitol hill uneasy. mitch mcconnell, the senate leader saying, the democrats keep trying to move the goalposts. whatever happens, we are going to have a vote this friday. it is all coming toa have a vote this friday. it is all coming to a head. many thanks for the latest. our north america editor. the chancellor, philip hammond, has joined other senior ministers in urging the conservatives to back the prime minister's attempts to get the best possible brexit deal. in his speech to the party conference in birmingham, mr hammond predicted that the economy would be

boosted once a brexit agreement was reached. his colleague the brexit secretary, dominic raab, insisted that britain would not be bullied into signing what he called a one—sided deal, as our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. where is the tories' identity? peep up there — is it in that private meeting of tory women, with a glimpse of the prime minister? thank you very much. or is it with hard—core brexiteers? who find plenty of fans here. or is it with the chancellor? pushing gradual moves, in line with tory tradition. we need to have the courage now to regenerate capitalism once again, to pass on something worthwhile to the next generation. that is what being a conservative is all about. applause. and to those who will say that the measured message of evolution will be drowned out

by the shrill voices of the demagogues and the populists, i say, put our trust in the common—sense of the british people and they will put their trust in us. applause. strange as it may seem, for the tories, who have traditionally been behind business, their chancellor felt the need to say this. let me say it loud and clear — the conservative party is and always will be, at the party of business. applause. what ijust heard is a brilliant speech, inspiring confidence in the future of this country. it reminds you of why you became a conservative in the first place. it's nice to come to something like this and be reminded, like you said, why you joined. that doesn't ring true, though, for some of the party's other money men. the prime minister herself has not shown enough concern for how the country pays its way,

according to one major tory backer, who's given the party millions. the conservatives, i would say, have lost their way, not lost their ideology. i think the prime minister, if i might say, has let herself down personally, by not being a champion of business to the extent that she could or should be. you might make a legitimate excuse that she's been so busy on brexit she hasn't had time to focus on it, but post brexit this is one of the key issues that the conservative party must address. do you believe she is the person to get the tories back to their way if they have lost their way? well, is it conceivable, if she does a brilliantjob in brexit? of course it's conceivable. is it likely? we'll have to wait and see. there are plenty of people here who want to talk about who the tories are and who they're for, but quiet arguments about moderate change simply can't compete with all the shouting about brexit, and it will be hard for the tories to find themselves again, until the clamour dies away. farfrom going quietly,

brexit backers who hate the prime minister's compromise are here in full force — campaigning to get her to ditch her so—called chequers plan, that would see parts of the economy closely tied to the european union, even after we leave. any deal that prevents us from taking back control and being sovereign, and any deal that looks like chequers or the opinions proposed by the eu, would be a deal that stands in defiance of our democracy. applause many here, though, are not in the mood for trouble. the former foreign secretary was spotted casuallyjogging through the countryside today. he'll arrive in this city tomorrow — even though many of his colleagues wish he would stay away. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, birmingham. a man from walsall has been found guilty of murdering his eight—year—old daughter

and of making a threat to kill his former partner after finding out she was in a relationship with another person. william billingham, who is 55, stabbed his daughter mylee to death at his home injanuary. two scientists who pioneered a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer have won this year's nobel prize for medicine. james allison from the united states and tasuku honjo from japan were jointly awarded the prestigious prize after discovering how the human body's own immune system could be turned against cancerous cells. our medical correspondent fergus walsh has the story. for tasuku honjo in tokyo, it was late afternoon when celebrations began. but forjames allison in texas, the time difference meant a very early start. my son called at 5.30. then pretty soon i started getting calls from other people, and then a bunch of people came to the room, to the door. beating on the door at six in the morning with champagne. so we had a little party early this morning.

the two professors discovered how to take the brakes off the immune system to fight cancer. our immune cells are there to destroy foreign invaders like viruses, but cancer cells have several ways of hiding from the body's defences. the scientists discovered some tumours use a chemical handshake to disable immune cells. this has lead to drugs which block that handshake and enable immune cells to kill the cancer. immunothera py has revolutionised the treatment of some cancers and is producing stunning results in patients with melanoma, lymphoma, kidney, lung and bladder cancer. this oncologist at the royal marsden in london told me that many patients are now living much longer. this research has made a big difference to my patients. i now have people in my clinic who are alive five, six, seven, ten years after their diagnosis as a consequence of the drugs that have been developed

from this research. the life expectancy for melanoma in the past before this was only six to nine months. are you still biting your nails? lucy davis was told five years ago that she could have just months to live because advanced melanoma had spread to her liver. but immunothera py treatment at the marsden has kept the cancer in check. to have seen my eldest in secondary school, i today filled out the application for my youngest to go to secondary school and i'm pretty confident i will see that, barring any buses and unforeseen circumstances! it's an extraordinary situation. current research is examining why immunothera py doesn't work for many patients, and how to best use it in combination with other cancer treatments to extend life expectancy still further. fergus walsh, bbc news. it's exactly a year since 58 people were killed in america's worst—ever mass shooting.

it happened in las vegas when a man opened fire on crowds attending a country music festival. my colleague clive myrie has returned to the city to speak to some of the 400 people who were shot in the incident and survived — people whose lives were changed forever that night. woven in the fabric of the stars and stripes is a profound belief in the power of firearms, to promote liberty and maintain freedom. but that devotion carries a price. the bullet went through my chest, into my stomach. my liver, my spleen... there was so much shrapnel in my right eye that it broke the machines that they were suctioning it out with. gunfire 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 melanson, a survivor of the worst mass shooting in american history.

for close to a year, her home has been this hospital room, because of a gunman‘s bullet. there's times where i thought i don't have the strength, because sometimes i felt so weak, and my husband, steve, he's the one that gave me the strength to get through... because there's so many nights and days, i didn't know, because i just didn't feel good. it was a present from her daughters. an evening at a country music festival. gunfire gunshots... panic... a man high up in a hotel nearby is firing round after round. he kills 58, but for every minute he's firing, he injures a0 more. ten minutes pass before he stops. the dead are buried and mourned,

yet the injured carry a special burden, as do those they love. like rosemary's husband, steve. it's been hard. she's cried, i've cried. just watching her pain that she's suffered. most people don't know what she's gone through. rosemary's doctor matthewjohnson understands the continuing traumas once wounds heal. their whole lives get changed and that doesn't even include the psychological injuries that they sustain. for years. i mean, it can affect your whole way of life. you can't work the normal job you used to work. if you don't have disability insurance, then, i mean, you could end up on the streets. but elsewhere, life is serene. the hotel the killer fired from bears no trace of carnage,

and the business of selling guns is undimmed. the murderer passed background checks, using an arsenal of more than 20 high—calibre weapons because he could. 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, 48 hours later, those words had disappeared and it was back to selling as usual. you're looking at live pictures there, broward county, florida, where there's an active shooter... people die and america moves on, but some can't do that. they say lessons must be learned. that the past must inform the future. i used to watch these shootings on tv before it happened to me. it's 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 fine

revisits that night in vegas. it knocks you back again, and you can feel it, you can see it, smell it, all of it. and knowing... like, the sadness of knowing what those victims are going to go through. but what should america do? debates on gun control come and go — nothing changes. but everything's changed for vegas survivor chelsea romo, who lost an eye. it's been hard. i've already had six surgeries, just in the last few months. my son, if i go somewhere without him, he's like, "mum, just make sure you're not going to go somewhere where you get shot, ok?" so he fully understands what happened and the pain you've been through? yeah. the many tens of thousands injured in gun—related incidents every year are america's dirty secret. they live changed, quiet lives. chelsea, rosemary, and so many others, are paying the price

for this country's love affair with a gun. clive myrie, bbc news, in las vegas. the discount supermarket chain aldi says it plans to open another 130 new stores in the uk over the next two years. the german firm says the expansion will create 5,000 jobs. aldi currently has more than 700 stores in the uk and is britain's fifth biggest supermarket. tesco bank has been fined more than £16 million following a cyber attack in 2016. the financial regulator said the bank had failed to protect its current account holders after fraudsters got away with more than two million pounds. tesco bank has apologised and refunded all losses to customers. primera air, a budget airline that began offering long—haul flights from uk airports earlier this year, has collapsed after 1a years of operating. the icelandic—owned airline said it had failed to secure long—term

financing, meaning it had no choice but to file for bankruptcy. two flights to washington and new york due to leave stansted have been grounded. millions of small plastic pellets known as nurdles have been discovered on a beach near portsmouth. it isn't clear where the microplastics have come from, but experts warn they can release toxins with potentially devastating effects for marine life or indeed any creatures on land which consume them. a team of local volunteers has taken matters into its own hands, as our correspondent duncan kennedy reports from hayling island beach. they're called nurdles — tiny plastic pellets that are washed up in their thousands on hayling island. so many, in fact, that volunteers here collected more than 20 sacks full of them. ..millions of them, and we couldn't physically sit here and pick them all up...

despite that, one volunteer, bianca carr, says the nurdles keep appearing. and to give you an idea ofjust 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 and found a total of about 1,000 of these nurdles. no one knows where these tiny white beads 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 are used in plastic manufacturing. they are everywhere around here, all around the shoreline. nurdles are melted and moulded into everything from bottles to bin liners, but one survey found that through spillage and accidents, they found their way onto nearly 75% of britain's beaches. the vast clusters found on hampshire's shoreline has coincided with a bbc documentary tonight on plastic pollution. it showed this indonesian

river choking in plastic. whilst on howe island off australia came these disturbing images of what birds are ingesting. jeepers! stomach full of plastic. 16 pieces of plastic. 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. many tributes have been paid to one of france's most popular singers

and entertainers, charles aznavour, who has died aged 94. during a career which lasted more than 70 years, he recorded more than 1,000 songs and sold more than 100 million records around the world. but he also campaigned on humanitarian and political issues. our correspondent lucy williamson reports. # we can never know how love takes over. ..# he complained about his appearance, his personality, and even his voice, but none of it stopped charles aznavourfrom being one of france's best—known stars. before aznavour, a fellow french artist said despair was unpopular. i'm dealing with sadness and with melancholy, and with every day's little trouble. with problems of the ageing man with a young girl

or the lost love... # i'm still single but happy...#. charles aznavour was born in france to armenian parents. he accompanied the singer edith piaf after world war ii before his own singing career took off. he'd noticed that girls looked at him differently when he was on stage. # she may be the reason isurvive...#. his 1973 recording of she topped the uk singles chart for several weeks. 45 years later, he was still performing and last year he travelled to hollywood to unveil his star on the walk of fame. but nowhere was he as cherished as here in france. charles aznavour spanned almost a century of french life. his song la boheme described how time has changed the once gritty paris neighbourhood of montmartre. now his own time is over, how do people here remember him?

translation: he manages to translate the everyday life of ordinary people, theirjoys and sorrows. like the great poets of france, his songs will never get old. one of the many who marked his death on social media was the french president, emmanuel macron. "charles aznavour‘s unique brilliance," he said, "will stay with us long after he's gone." charles aznavour, whose death was announced today.