‘sunshine. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. survivors continue to be pulled from the rubble, but the death toll from friday's earthquake in indonesia jumps to 1300 — and aid is desperately needed. the pentagon receives two suspicious items in the mail — and they've tested positive for the deadly poison ricin. the president reiterates his support for his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, as pressure builds on the fbi investigation into sexual misconduct allegations: it is a very scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. this is a very, very... this is a very difficult time. do get in touch on any of the stories we are covering — the hashtag is bbcos

more than 1300 people are now confirmed dead, following friday's earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island of sulawesi. rescue workers have found the bodies of 3a bible studies students, after their church was hit by a mudslide. 52 students are still missing. rescuers are having to carry the victims‘ bodies for an hour and a half through thick mud to get to ambulances. the un says there are nearly 200,000 people in urgent need of help. there is still no power, and not enough fresh water or food. aid is slowly arriving but a lot more is needed. translation: we need a lot of tents, blankets, mattresses and beds as well as food, drinks, medical services, clean water, sanitation, toilets, trauma counsellors and clothes. we still need a lot of these things to help

the refugees. i want to tell you about this man — anthonius agung. he was a 21—year—old air traffic controller who died in the earthquake on friday. he's been hailed a hero, because he didn't leave his post until a passenger plane had ta ken off safely. now we've heard from the pilot of that plane — which was the very last to leave before the quake hit. he stayed in his position until the very last of my departure, and until the tower was shaking very bad, and then once he made sure that the aircraft departed safely, then heat jumped from the tower to the lower level. that's what happened. he broke his arm and his legs. he did a very heroic action. he did hisjob professionally, and i believe that he should be honoured. i call him my guardian angel.

0ur correspondent jonathan head is in palu — here's his report. three days under the ruins of an office building, but he's alive. few of the victims have been as lucky as this 38—year—old man, pulled out after a three—hour rescue operation. many more are still buried in these impossible mountains of rubble. in the city centre, they are trying to open some of the blocked roads, but from the air you can see what the indonesian government is up against. this is a village which was literally swallowed by the liquefying ground churned up by the earthquake. and here, they were hit by a mudslide. sometimes it seems the city has been hit by a whole series of catastrophes, notjust the earthquake and the tsunami,

but in this neighbourhood a sea of mud that fell down the mountain and has buried all of the houses right up to halfway, and some of the inhabitants, too. this man has come back with his youngest son to check what's left of his home. they had a narrow escape. the mud came down right after the earthquake, he told me. three or four minutes later he and his familyjust ran with only the clothes they were wearing. he and his neighbours have salvaged what they can, but it isn't much. they need everything, and they're not getting it yet. so, palu's inhabitants are taking matters into their own hands. here, trying to break into a small supermarket, and then being driven back by police officers who seemed afraid of being overrun. one hour later though

the police relented, and the crowd poured into the shop. they did make a token effort to stop nonessential items being looted, but a government unable to help most of these earthquake victims cannot really stop them helping themselves. the first real sign of order we saw — this extraordinary line for petrol, each bottle with its own queue number while its owners sit in the shade for the long hours they will have to wait. wade there is lots more on the situation in indonesia on our website. some news that's broken in the last couple of hours. dramatic news out of washington. the

reuters we are hearing —— from reuters we are hearing —— from reuters we are hearing: "in coordination with the pentagon force protection agency, fbi special agents took possession of two suspicious envelopes that had been screened at the pentagon mailfacility. envelopes that had been screened those envelopes are currently undergoing further testing. as this is ongoing, we will have no further comment." i spoke to gary 0'donoghue is in washington. we believe that these were discovered at a mail sorting facility on the main pentagon site, which isjust facility on the main pentagon site, which is just about 20 minutes from where i'm talking to you now, just outside washington, dc. it is a huge site, something like 25,000 people work there each day and these two packages were discovered we understand one of them was addressed to the secretary of defencejim mattis, the other to the head of naval operations. they did not get inside the main building, they have been taken away by the fbi for analysis, and my understanding is that building is still under quarantine. the pentagon is saying no injuries at this stage so far, but they're waiting for the results of the fbi investigation, of course if it turns out to be ricin, which is highly, highly poisonous it turns

out to be that they will be trying to find out whose it is. they would say this could not be anything said by accident, this would be an absolutely deliberate act to send something like this having manufactured... you have to manufactured... you have to manufacture ricin, it comes from castor beans, where you get castor oilfrom. it's very, very castor beans, where you get castor oil from. it's very, very potent. you need very little of it and it can kill you in something like that band to have if you're exposed to quite small amounts of it. it is enormously, potentially dangerous. this has happened before in some government institutions. there were some incidents after 9/11, also incidents of anthrax being sent to various congressmen and senators incidents of anthrax being sent to various congressmen and senators as well as that stage, so they will be looking for any patterns and certainly try to track down whoever sent this if it turns out to be what they think it is. as a rule, how to its security, how high are the screening levels on stuff that is sent to the sorts of official buildings? incredibly high. this is not get anywhere near the pentagon's

main building. it within a facility outside. the security there is incredibly tight. whenever i go there, there are places crawling with men with guns, etc etc. the security you have to go through various checks and detectors and things like that. they will know that they had to take great care, of course not in the distant memory is the fact that the pentagon was itself a target of a terrorist attack during 9/11 when a plane flew into the side of the building there. they are well aware of the threats to them. let's stay in washington. let's get the latest on the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the us supreme court. he's currently facing sexual misconduct allegations by several women but denies them all. the fbi is investigating, but meanwhile new allegations about mr kava naugh‘s drinking have emerged. here's what the republican in charge of the nomination process makes of them. judge kavanaugh may have been accused of throwing some ice across a college bar in the mid—1980s.

talk about a bombshell. one can only imagine what new bombshell might be published today or tomorrow. but here is what we know, madame president, one thing for sure, the senate will vote onjudge kavanaugh here on this floor this week. that vote has been delayed while the fbi carries out its investigation but democrats want more time to consider what the fbi finds. an update from reuters told us: i asked anthony zurcher about what the report might look like — and what if the democrats aren't happy with it? we don't know exactly what the

report will look like. if history is any guide, it will be the findings that they have from their interviews that they have from their interviews that they have from their interviews that they are conducting in any kind of documentary evidence they turn up. but it won't draw any conclusions, it will present the accou nts conclusions, it will present the accounts they have gathered, and allow the senators to draw whatever conclusions from that that they can. democrats, they may not be happy with this. they have been asking for a much more extensive investigation. they feel like the week—long deadline will decrypt the fbi's attem pts deadline will decrypt the fbi's atte m pts to deadline will decrypt the fbi's attempts to chase down any kind of leaves, so if they're not happy with it they can vote against kavanaugh, they were going to do that anyway beyond that. they can object, and thatis beyond that. they can object, and that is about all. stay with us. let's play you some of what donald trump has said a little earlier today. listen to this. i think he was fighting people that were making very tough charges against him, and

i thought he did very well. i really did. i thought he did very well. he's fighting very hard for his reputation, for his family. anthony, what kind of impact will comments like that have? well, i think donald trump is obviously mounting a very strong defence of brett kavanaugh, and painting it as putting people in danger, that this is a movement towards doing away with the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. of course that usually applies to a court of law, but in this case a court of public opinion that will have an impact on judge kavanaugh‘s reputation, and i think he is seeing greater dangers to that, people jumping to conclusions in his view. people in particular brett kava naugh conclusions in his view. people in particular brett kavanaugh with the sorts of accusations. stay with us for one more click to play you. the republican senator jeff flake commenting on the toe of kavanaugh‘s testimony in the senate last week.

listen to this. the initial defence thatjudge listen to this. the initial defence that judge kavanaugh gave listen to this. the initial defence thatjudge kavanaugh gave was something like i told my wife, i hope that i would sound that ended mid—ifl hope that i would sound that ended mid—if i were... if i felt that i was unjustly maligned. and it went on an interaction with the members was sharp and partisan and that concerns me. was sharp and partisan and that concerns me. jeff flake is a crucial vote in the senate. does this sound like he might be wavering there? right before he asked for this delay for the fbi investigation he came out saying that he supported brett kavanaugh‘s nomination, he was going to vote for him. that was after thursday's committee hearing, so something changed withjeff flake, and he's been wavering and it could be the demonstrators who confronted him in an elevator. it could be in talking with other republicans who are on the fence, but he does appear

to be having a real challenge trying to be having a real challenge trying to come to grips with these accusations and make up his mind whether he will eventually voted —— vote in favour of kavanaugh, some of that depends on what the fbi finds. but it's going to come down to people like jeff but it's going to come down to people likejeff flake. but it's going to come down to people like jeff flake. anthony, stay with us on outside source, still to come: a day on from professor alessandro strumia's suspension from cern following his comments that physics was invented by men, a woman has been awarded the nobel prize in physics for the first time in 55 years. heterosexual couples are to be allowed to enter into civil partnerships in england and wales, as an alternative to marriage. the government has announced it will change the law to extend civil partnerships — which were introduced for same sex couples in 2004 — to all adults. the move follows a supreme court ruling, which will give mixed—sex couples and their families greater security. the court had said that existing law was incompatible with the european convention on human rights. rebecca steinfeld and charles keidan, a couple from london, brought a legal challenge to be

allowed to have a civil partnership — and they gave the bbc their reaction to today's announcement. we are delighted with this wonderful news from the government today, and we think the prime minister and the minister for women we think the prime minister and the ministerfor women and we think the prime minister and the minister for women and equality is for finally announcing that they are committed to ending the current situation and the inequality and opening civil partnerships to everybody so that couples like charlie and myself can finally formalize our relationship in a way that we see fit and have the recognition and financial protections that we seek. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is: more than 1300 people are now known to have died in the earthquake and tsunami hit that sulawesi on friday. that figure is expected to rise. other stories from around the bbc newsroom: a budget airline which began offering long—haul route including

london to new york has collapsed. primera air abruptly ceased all operations after 1a years in business. flights with the airline have been grounded and passengers told not to go to the airport. police have clashed with protesters in barcelona and other cities on the first anniversary of catalonia's failed referendum on independence from spain. pro—independence activists blocked major roads and a high—speed railway line. and — a team of oceanographers caught this rare footage of a gulper eel shifting shape, a unique method it uses to intimidate predators. the creature lives 4,600 feet below the surface. this is cristiano ronaldo — arguably one of the most famous footballers in the world. las vegas police have reopened a sexual assault investigation from 2009 at the request of a woman who has alleged she was raped by him. this is their statement: this is the article in the german

newspaper der spiegel which reported that kathryn mayorga claimed the portuguese footballer raped her in a hotel room in las vegas that year — she was paid to remain silent — and has now decided to go public. cristiano ronaldo denies the allegations and has called the article by der spiegel "fake news". his representatives said he would be taking legal action against the magazine. der spiegel sports editor christoph winterbach has written a long thread on twitter in response ? have a read of that if you want. our sports correspondent richard conway has more: it was reported that a report was filed with the las vegas police department today after the alleged incident in 2009, but the victim at the time didn't provide detectives with the location, nor a description

of the suspect. then in 2010 catherine major garrett is reported to have reached an out—of—court settle m e nt to have reached an out—of—court settlement with cristiano ronaldo, somewhere in the region of $375,000. that was paid in agreement that she would not go public with the allegations. her lawyers are now to reverse that nondisclosure agreement, trying to get it declared void. last night, las vegas police issued a statement saying they have reopened a sexual assault investigation from 2009, and they say they are following up with information supplied to them from the victim. this is hassan al—kontar. he's a syrian refugee, and for nearly seven months, he's been living in an airport in malaysia. it sounds like the tom hanks film. our online team has called it "the real life story of ‘the terminal‘ — without a happy hollywood ending." because mr al—kontar has been arrested and taken away — and no one knows where he is. human rights activists are worried he'll be sent back to syria. before he was taken away, mr al—kontar was documenting his airport life on social media — he has tens of thousands of followers.

0ur asia—pacific editor, michael bristow has more. hassan al—kontar is a syrian was working in the united arab emirates when the three were broke i didn't wa nt to when the three were broke i didn't want to go back on because he didn't wa nt to want to go back on because he didn't want to get drafted into the army. he stayed on in the uab but as uae but he eventually last year was deported to malaysia where he stayed for a few months when his visa ran out, he tried to move to cambodia. they sent him back, he then tried to go to turkey but he couldn't even get on board the plane. the last seven months he has been at the international airport living on food given to him by airline staff, and documenting his whole life on social media, cutting his hair, exercising in the terminal, that kind of thing. the authorities in malaysia, the police there have now arrested him. they have decided enough is enough, but it's not clear yet what is going

to happen to him. incredible story. the us economy has been going from strength to strength and now that'll mean higher wages for one of the world's biggest online retailers. amazon will pay $15 an hour and is pushing for other companies to do the same. senator bernie sanders praised the move "what mr bezos has done today is not only enormously important for amazon 5 hundreds of thousands of employees, it could well be a shot heard around the world. i urge corporate leaders around the country to follow mr bezos‘ lead." kim gittleson is in ny and the economics — the us is seeing record unemployment and bumper growth it's about politics and economics. is amazon bowing to political pressure? it is interesting you are quoting senator sanders because obviously he was one of the fiercest critics of the wages amazon paid its lowest pa id workers critics of the wages amazon paid its lowest paid workers and introduced legislation into congress earlier this year that have been very obvious acronym, in which he said

that any company that paid its workers so little they were still forced to rely on government benefits, they should pay higher taxes. clearly this was something that impacted amazon, the company did not want to be seen as someone that was engaging in underpaying its workers and possibly detrimentally asking them to rely on government benefits. as a result, some have said that this isjeff bezos bowing to political pressure. what about the economics because as we know the us has seen record unemployment bump for growth. that is the second thing people are saying. amazon gets to shine its halo for this move, but fundamentally it had to raise wages for the lowest paid workers because the us economy is doing so well that the us economy is doing so well that the average wage paid to retail workers here in the us is a little over $13 an hour, well above the minimum wage, and that is something all of these retailers from target to costco to walmart are competing with each other to hire workers in the lead up to the holiday season. amazon kind of got out ahead of them by offering this wage increase.

thank you very much. as we heard a few minutes ago — the collapse of a budget airline is causing travel havoc for thousands of passengers. primera air collapsed and ceased all operations on monday after 1a years in business. flights have been grounded and passengers told to not even go to the airport. richard bond has the story. primera passengers left high and dry last night. here in paris they try to get answers from staff who themselves have lost theirjobs. this meanwhile the scene in washington. primera launched budget transatlantic flights from stansted in may of this year, despite encouraging early bookings a collapsed into bankruptcy at midnight. they didn't contact me or anyone it seems, and they had just ceased contact, ceased operation. not let anyone know, not refunding

anyone by the looks of it and i'm just going to have to find a new flight, | just going to have to find a new flight, i guess. primera said it had been unable to secure long—term funding. it also blamed the late arrival of aircraft from airbus. this is a tragedy of course. for thousands of passengers who were stranded and wondering how to get home, and tens of thousands who are wondering how they are going to get their money back from advanced bookings. but it's also i'm afraid bad news first instead as once again another attempt to operate transatlantic flights has failed spectacularly. passengers who travel out will have to make their own arrangements to return to the uk. those with travel insurance may get some cash assistance, but replacement flights are likely to be expensive. the 2018 paris motor show is underway where car industry executives are gathering at a critical time. those potential us tariffs threaten to slam the brakes on the industry. the united states is the number one destination for eu—built cars, with exports worth more than $41; billion in 2017. toyota motor europe ceo johan van zyl has been speaking

to our own theo leggett about trade and electric cars. i think the first thing was that the agreement which has now been reached between the us, mexico and canada, we welcome that. it's more certainty. we will have to see the technicalities that will now unfold, but i think the one thing is that we really hope for is that this will also lead to the elimination of duties and tariffs which have been implemented will stop of course, we believe in open markets, we believe in free trade, and that is what we would like to continue with our trade relationship. this is an industry which is obviously undergoing profound change in your company is no exception. we have already committed to getting rid of diesel cars by the end of next year, you're not going to build any more

of those. now you are saying you will build electric cars, but other people seem to have committed to doing it sooner. you think you have been left out? no, i don't think we are behind. we watched the first hybrid vehicles more than 20 years ago, we have sold more than 12 million hybrid vehicles. i believe that's the main technology but it doesn't mean it's our only technology. based on what we have learned from hybrid technology we will have electric vehicles, we will have plug—in hybrid vehicles and in the future we already have our hydrogen vehicle, and we will continue with that. as the markets become ready for the vehicles, we will roll them out into the market. in india, 50,000 farmers from the northern state of uttar pradesh, staged a protest march into the capital new delhi, to demand better prices for their produce. on a the main highway into delhi, they clashed with police. here are some of the scenes from that roadblock. the farmers used a tractor to try to smash

down the police barrier, in return the police used water cannon to push them back. the police also fired tear gas — and some of the farmers were injured in the clashes. the farmers have been hit by a fall in commodities prices, the uttar pradesh region is a top producer of sugar cane and wheat, and the famers are calling on the government for financial aid. we will have more on that story in the next half hour on outside source. but to remind you of our top story, because we now know that more than 1300 people are now confirmed dead following friday's earthquake and tsunami on the indonesian island of sulawesi. rescue workers lining the body of more than 30 bible study stu d e nts the body of more than 30 bible study students after their church was hit bya students after their church was hit by a mud slide 52 more are still missing. rescuers having to carry the victims bodies for an hour and a half through thick mud to get to ambulance is because the roads are still very blog. the un says there are nearly 200,000 people still in

urgent need —— the roads are still blocked. we'll be back in a few minutes' time. that evening. time and again for our world weather round—up. the remnants of hurricane rosa still posing a threat for desert southwest on the us at the moment. it looks like arizona in particular could be at risk of flooding with 100 mm of rain set to fall in a short space of time. some of that rain eventually pushing up towards the four corners region two. nasty area of low pressure clearing through eastern canada on wednesday, the slow likely to be pretty dramatic for the middle pa rt to be pretty dramatic for the middle part of the week, there he warm air getting called up from the south ahead of that low temperatures surging up to 30 celsius across a particular part of the northeastern us, but the low will bring very strong winds to continue south of hudson bay. a big bunch of cold air behind and across the canadian prairies and down into the rockies,

perhaps significant snowfall of the season on the way here. watch how that cold air migrates right across canada by the end of the week and also takes up those particularly high temperatures from the northeastern us. big changes to come here. over into asia, here is super—tight and, it looks like —— super—tight and, it looks like —— super typhoon, it looks like it will wea ken super typhoon, it looks like it will weaken but it will head toward lands. this is the forecast track currently but again it looks like it could have taiwan close to his sites but i'm get later into there the outer bands already starting to affect japan at this stage. further south plenty of showers across vietnam, thailand, northern indonesia and at least we have drier weather further south while the clean—up operation following the earthquake and tsunami. we will be keeping a close eye on that area because it looks like a glancing blow into eastern china friday, saturday. the current thinking has a curving through the koreans straight potentially affecting japan again,

through the weekend. as korean strait. we will keep a look on the forecast for you. elsewhere closer to home but that across to europe now. a big area of low pressure in the centre of the med, another big area of pressure pulling away from scandinavia across the baltics, strong winds to the north of europe, strong winds to the north of europe, strong winds to the north of europe, strong winds around the med, strong southerly to the west could cause disruption if you are flying out of the south of france, northeastern spain or the balearics and heavy rain set to open thereto. that will further again pulling a big plunge of cold air behind into eastern europe briefly for the latter part of this week. significantly warming up of this week. significantly warming up further west getting as far north as northern france, even to southern regions of the uk. here we are with that picture to the east, still looking unsettled, windy thanks to our area of low pressure, temperature starting to recover in moscow in the next few days. further west pretty healthy figures for the time of year, and a fairly decent dose of sunshine for many will.

hello, this is outside source. survivors continue to be pulled from the rubble, but the death toll from friday's earthquake in indonesia jumps to 1,300 — and aid is desperately needed. the pentagon receives two suspicious items in the mail — and they've tested positive for the deadly poison ricin. the president reiterates his support for his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, as pressure builds on the fbi investigation into sexual misconduct allegaitons. it's a very scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of that. this is a very difficult time. and — at a packed event borisjohnson makes a blunt attack on theresa may's brexit plan describing it as a constitutional outrage. the prime minister says she's cross about the comments. france has accused iran

of attempting to set off a bomb in paris. this was the alleged target a rally of an iranian opposition movement held in the city injune — some prominent figures from the united states also attended, including former new york mayor rudi giuliani. today three french government ministers, the foreign, interior and economy, made a rare joint statement accusing iran's intelligence ministry of being behind it. the plot was foiled after a joint european operation. belgium two pepole of iranian origin were arrested. these pictures show a bomb disposal robot searching a car they were travelling in, police found explosives and suspected them of being en route to the rally. at the same time near the city of frankfurt in germany, an iranian diplomat was also arrested.

today france seized the assets of the individuals they accuse of being involved. hugh schofield has been following the story. the french have always suspected there was an iranian government handed all this and now they have said publicly that that is what they believe in. and there's a statement from the seniorfigures believe in. and there's a statement from the senior figures saying after a long and detailed investigation we have come to the conclusion that this bomb plot was the work of figures in the ministry of the intelligence in tehran. a clear signal to the iranians that france ta kes signal to the iranians that france takes this very seriously and does believe this was a real—life bomb attack that was planned by figures in tehran. at the same time we have this operation in the north of the country and the police operation against a centre which is where

there are a number of pro irani and religious groups. there was a police raid there and some arms were discovered may be legitimately. three people have been taken into custody and very much kicking into the ant nest as the french would put it. they has said that we are onto you. they would have to deny anything to with this alleged attack and they say that the whole plot as it were was cooked up by the people and stupid to put a spanner in the works of the relations. the french have a very tricky relationship but it functions up to a point. the french want to salvage and consolidate the deal on the nuclear capacity and the french don't want to be taken for idiots either. they say that their policy towards iran

is one of negotiation plus pressure. but haven't today was very much part of the pressure. they have been barred from drinking since the revolution but alcohol is widespread and it can absolutely lethal. it shows kurdish smugglers transporting alcohol by horseback and this shows iranian police destroying bottles of illicit booze. at least 42 people have died after drinking contaminated bootleg alcohol. as part of a wider issue we re alcohol. as part of a wider issue were in the past three weeks of its 400 people have been hospitalized. take a look at his video share by one of our colleagues at bbc persia. you can see some and adding colour died to make this look like whiskey. and resealing bottles with plastic. they also point out another issue in the tweets that prohibition in iran

keeps taking its toll. people going blind or dying. this is on top of risking severe punishments like receiving tens of lashes for picking the law. -- breaking the law. according to official numbers, 80 million l of alcohol are being smuggled into the country through borders every year and this is a huge number and probably twice that number is being produced at home by people, and by some people who are now trying to make money by selling them, but what has happened recently over the past week is quite opposite and the number of people using their lives for using contaminated alcohol and a number of people now know that more than 40 people have lost their lives in different provinces and this is not just lives in different provinces and this is notjust in one province, it's all over the country. 0ver100 people have lost their sight because of that and hundred 78 snye have

kidney failure and are undergoing dialysis. this is quite a big and we're talking about a country where alcohol consumption is illegal and you would fear some type of punishment if you go to the authorities of the hospital and report your not feeling well. thus we authorities are asking people if they feel unwell they can go to the hospitals in the hospitals have pledged not to report them. do we know why they're so deadly? what's in them that is the key people go blind to boost the kidneys or even die? we don't really know because we don't know where they're being produced and who is producing them. running authorities say they arrested the number of people that have been producing them but to be exact we don't know what it is. we have even had a number of days where we had a call saying when we go to parties we ask one of our colleagues

or one of the people attending the party to try the alcohol to wait for an hourand if party to try the alcohol to wait for an hour and if nothing happens then we use it. that's about the situation has become now. is there since the economic situation is contributing to be with getting hold of this stuff rather than bona fide of this stuff rather than bona fide of products that are important? the iranian currency has lost its value hugely over the past two months or less lead to problems because it's now hard to get good quality alcoholic drinks in the country and they have become so expensive that they have become so expensive that the people would prefer to go for homemade alcohol which is not really reliable what you cannot really trust what you are getting and that could be, that is definitely part of the problem. in india, 50,000 farmers from the northern state of uttar pradesh, staged a protest march into the capital new delhi, to demand better

prices for their produce. on a the main highway into delhi, they clashed with police. here are some of the scenes from that roadblock. the farmers used a tractor to try to smash down the police barrier, in return the police used water cannon to push them back. the police also fired tear gas — and some of the farmers were injured in the clashes. the bbc‘s ishleen kaur has more on the story. at this point it's important to understand why the farmers are protesting. it's high input costs with them versus the reduced price. their rating from high fuel prices and loan burdens and their pressing for government to help them so they wa nt for government to help them so they want higher support prices for agriculture goods and free electricity other farms, and they wa nt electricity other farms, and they want help on loans. farmers for a very large water bank in india and especially in states they're these

estates were going there into november or december. the important that give them under bank and the general elections will take place in 2019 and most of these farmers that are protesting witches from the most populous and state so the prime minister and his party it's important to keep the farmers happy as not lose the water bank. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site there is full coverage on bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. temperatures rose at the conservative party conference today — after former foreign secretary boris johnson directly attacked the prime minister's plan for brexit, known as the chequers deal. here he is speaking earlier. this is the moment to chuck

chequers. cheering. to scrap the commission's abominable northern ireland backstop. to use the otherwise redundant and miserable implementation period the end of 2022 negotiate the super candidate agreement and to invest in all of the customs procedures that we will need to ensure continued frictionless trade and to repair much more vigorously headed to two coming out on the wto terms. leaving the eu's single market and falling back on world trading 0rganisation rules for imports and exports is often referred to as a hard brexit, or leaving without a deal. prime minister theresa may, who is negotiating with the eu to accept her chequers propsal,

told the bbc she was not there for mrjohnson's speech on the fringes of their party's conference, but she had this to say about it. there are one or two things that boris said that i am cross about. he wa nted boris said that i am cross about. he wanted to tear up our guarantee to the people of northern ireland, northern ireland is part of the united kingdom. we are all, he and i all members tear of members of the conservative union of this party. that's because we believe in the unity of united kingdom. northern ireland is part of that union and we have a guarantee for the people of northern ireland and we are upholding that. our plan does that this the only plan on the table at the moment that does. rob watson joins us live from the conservative conference. rob, he spoke of the sidelines today at the conference but how big an impact did boris johnson at the conference but how big an impact did borisjohnson have today? well, you know, it was an extraordinary and dramatic moment because i'm trying to give a nice

way of putting this but most british politicians are pretty bland and black and white as some would say. he is definitely take the colour. i should begin also by saying you have to pinch yourself about how weird a moment this is and how it shows the poison and division that brexit has dripped into british politics because you have to remember theresa may and boris johnson because you have to remember theresa may and borisjohnson are supposed to be in the same party and same side. they were in the same government. to get the substance of the speech i don't think it was anything particularly new, but it was no doubt about it, a sort of full frontal assault on the prime minister's main policy. that is her approach to brexit and now the party activists who want to pretend to have a much more distant relationship with the european union and they love that. not a lot of other conservatives think critics are thinking something which i guess could be best summed up by the insults that i remember from could be best summed up by the insults that i rememberfrom my could be best summed up by the insults that i remember from my days in the us. that he's a man that is

all hat and no cattle. how is the bishop holding up against this pretty intense and constant onslaught? you have to strip away some of the froth at a conservative party conference or any political conference. i guess that this way that her ambitions were pretty low for this party conference that was to get through it pretty much unscathed. i think she has done that in is but an awful lot of attacks on her leadership and on her break the policy from both pro europeans and more of course from anti—europeans. i think she is going to think it's been a bit bumpy but i'm there. i think however the real challenge for her lies ahead and that's getting a deal with the european union in which she can bring back these people were so critical of her handling. if this was difficult for the conference even trickier stuff lies ahead. thank you very much.

since the start of august, 70 whales from a species usually found in deep water have washed up dead on beaches in scotland and ireland. researchers have been trying to work out what caused their deaths. lorna gordon reports from tiree in the inner hebrides. the islands along scotland's west coast have become a graveyard for cuvier‘s bea ked whales. in one month, more washed ashore here than in the previous ten years combined. and scientists are trying to work out why they died. it's not a natural occurrence. is it concerning what has happened? it's very concerning. very, very concerning. it is possibly the highest ever mortality, as a recorded mortality for this particular whale species, ever, anywhere in the world. cuvier‘s bea ked whales are creatures of the deep. they can dive to depths of almost 10,000 feet. research has shown they are sensitive to sound. after a spate of strandings in the canary islands, the use of sonar close to land there was a banned.

since then, they have seen no bodies. those involved in the investigations here will be scanning ear bones taken from the remains to look for trauma caused by excessive underwater sound. they're also looking at samples to rule out infectious diseases or contaminants. these whales had already been dead for several weeks by the time their bodies reached land. but the fact they washed ashore in such a short period of time points to the possibility that a single event caused their deaths, hundreds of miles out into the atlantic. so could underwater noise or sonar be the cause? when groups of beaked whales strand across tens of kilometres of coastline within a few hours, that been associated with naval and submarine warfare exercises. it appears that the sonar that they use to hunt for submarines triggers a panic reaction, then may disrupt their diving so they get

decompression sickness. they then die at sea and they washed ashore. the british military have been asked to help at tracking down any source of noise in the ocean around the time of the animals deaths. the problem that we have is that they can only report on what they have been doing, they are not responsible or for that matter even have the information about what has been going on by other agencies within nato. the royal navy says it is takes its possibilities in safeguarding the environment very seriously, and when possible, operators take avoidance action should animals be detected before or during sonar operations. there is increasing awareness of the effect plastic has on marine life. it's possible there may soon be proof that noise pollution in our waters can be deadly, too. lorna gordon, bbc news, tiree. first lady melania trump is starting an official trip to africa — and it's the first time she's representing the white house on a major visit on her own.

she's starting in accra, the capital of ghana — on her schedule was a visit to an open—air clinic at a hospital. over the next few days she'll visit kenya and malawi and also egypt. here's what people in those countries have been telling the bbc about that visit. she doesn't inspire me compared to michelle 0bama. melania is focusing this trip on how the us helps children in africa — but there's a contradiction in that. last year, the us gave more than $170 million to ghana through its aid programme usaid. that's fallen to $77 million this year. there's also the problem of perceptions. remember, donald trump hasn't been to africa in his presidency, and many people are still angry about his alleged use of a derogatory term when discussing african countries in february. i've been speaking

to our correspondent in accra, thomas naadi. mrs trompe was welcomed by traditional drummers and dancers at the airport and a lot of school children waving both the flags to give her a warm reception. the first lady of ghana was also there to receive her accompanied by other government officials. when the past donald trump, her husband, has not said particularly nice things about developing nations. how have they perceived their in donnacha?m depends on who you talk to. some people know that he does not like africa because he has openly expressed his youth but the confident describing it in a manner

that most people have found very offensive and so the thing that he has its a very negative perception about the continent. it also described africa as one of the most beautiful places on earth. and when announcing the visit of his wife to the continent he did say or was quoted as saying we both love africa, and it's meant to be some sort of damage control. that's not done enough to convince people in this country. some have openly told me it's fake love. what do you think that this visit is going to achieve with relations and also the aim is for the visit in terms of the welfare of children? welcome mat per visit to ghana was going to

strengthen the issues between the two countries and she will be visiting the castle which was actively used and that's also meant to boost tourism in this country. in terms of her campaign which is focused on promoting the well—being of children, it's really long wait to go to promote the discussions of her counterpart who is also passionate about children. both of them will share ideas and see how best to promote the welfare of children in this country. yesterday we reported that an italian a scientist said in a presentation at cern that "physics was invented by men". professor alessandro strumia has been suspended. and today this woman, donna strickland, won the nobel prize for physics. she shared it with these two men gerard mourou and arthur ashkin, for their ground—breaking inventions in laser physics in the 1980s.

it's only the third time the prize has gone to a woman. physicistjim al—khalili tweeted how delicious that canadian laser physicist donna strickland shares this year's physics nobel prize, just days after those ridiculous misogynistic comments made at a conference at cern about women in physics." in the last hour dr strickland has been speaking to the media. this is what she said about choosing her career path. i actually think that we all should do what we find fun and what we can do. my daughter was quite young she was being asked by her friends about me working rather than staying home and my answer is the world works best if we all do what we are good at. i have in any trained for three yea rs at. i have in any trained for three years and pretended she was much better looking after my children that i was. i said that was the case and she was considered the third

pa rent and she was considered the third parent in the family. i was much better and tweaking lasers so i should be out there in the world doing that we should all do what we good at. did i ever think i should be doing something to help humanity? no, we should alljust do what we are good at and it helps the world. as for the prize itself, we wanted to get our heads around the research itself — so we set our science correspondent pallab ghosh a challenge. to explain it under a minute. these two discoveries have enabled a scientist to see the world quite literally in a different light. the first discovery was when lasers first discovery was when lasers first came out they were not that powerful so the need to fight the laser signal. the problem was i doing that the amplifiers would blow up doing that the amplifiers would blow up as he needed to find a way of amplifying them without that happening. the researchers who won the nobel prize found a way of doing that by stretching out the pulses of light and amplifying it and

compressing them to reduce very fast and very intense burst of light which you can take very fast pictures of very small things like adams and objects. the second discovery is known as optical tweezers which as its name sounds and enables you to use light to hold in trap very small objects like bacteria or bits of cells that enabled scientists to discover how some of these processes work. that's it in some of these processes work. that's itina some of these processes work. that's it in a minute. a p pa re ntly apparently he did in one take. thanks to him for expanding that. a reminder of or top story before we go. rescue teams in indonesia have reached the four areas worst affected by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the island of sulawesi last week. the united nations says tens of thousands of people need urgent help. at least 1,300 people are known to have died. aid is arriving in devastated areas, but in some places only slowly. thanks for watching outside source.

i will be back of the same time tomorrow. hello there, the weather is not going to treat us all equally throughout the week ahead. that certainly was the case on tuesday. some places got a lot more sunshine than others. the full blue skies across western scotland and so chilly conditions and windy conditions as well. for the south was more mild but pretty cloudy, and more of us are going to get into that sort of weather during wednesday because this warm front is pushing its way northeast and behind that a lot of cloud and a feed of warm, moistair that a lot of cloud and a feed of warm, moist airfrom that a lot of cloud and a feed of warm, moist air from atlantic. generally most of the starting today with grey skies and misty and murky conditions. windy here with tuesday

and a little bit more warm as well. further south in the cloud break 70 get sunshine your temperatures could lift up to 20 degrees. now come on thursday morning with this feed of moist air we thursday morning with this feed of moistairwe are thursday morning with this feed of moist air we are likely to see some mist and fog patches through the south forced out hopefully clearing as because of the day to get spousal sunshine of the northwest in a band of cloud of outbreaks of fairly heavy rain heralding the arrival for different type of weather because this rate is associated with a cold front and to the north of that some colder air. to the south of it were likely to stay in the warm and humid airduring likely to stay in the warm and humid air during friday and looked away this front wriggles and snakes around. it will remain in place right across the british isles acting as a dividing line the south of it some mist and fog for the morning clearing to get spousal sunshine and warmth as well. to the north of the front they will be brightness but temperatures just 11 or 12 degrees in the cooler air.

those become really important in or forecast for the weekend. the front is likely to wriggle a little bit more and will be picked up by the jet stream. they're expected to dive a long way south and that will spend up a long way south and that will spend up this weather front and is likely to develop an area of low pressure. there is some uncertainty about exactly where the low pressure will develop but it's most likely present england and wales no see potentially heavy rain during saturday. for the north and west will see spousal sunshine it up across the board much cooler fuel to the weather. there is uncertainty about how quickly this rain will clear the southeast and hang around for a time. looks most likely that we will see a brighter day on sunday with spousal sunshine before more rain pushes into the northwest and that sets it up for next week because remember the jet stream, that when desired in the atmosphere and the jet while it to settle to the northwest of the uk.

that would mean high—pressure could develop down towards the southeast. keeping southeastern areas of a bit drier and warmer at times as well. there is a slightly less likely scenario from some computer models that will push the high out into the near continent allowing frontal systems to move a bit further south and east taking rain with them. at the moment it looks most likely the weather will be found towards the northwest whereas the south and east will be drier and warmer. the weather not treating as equally as weather not treating as equally as we head through the next few days. tonight at 10pm, the desperate race to save lives after the indonesian earthquake — the death toll is now 1,300 and rising. the full extent of the devastation is now apparent — four days after the quake and tsunami struck, leaving many thousands homeless and in need of help. some people are still being found alive — we report from two areas — where aid is slow to get through. in this neighbourhood, a sea of mud that fell down

the mountain and has buried all of the houses. gunfire and the situation gets even more tense — as people try to take essential supplies from local shops. we'll have the latest from the region and we'll report on the challenge faced by the aid agencies. also tonight —