hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. more than 1,400 people are now known to have died in indonesia — the un warns help has yet to reach some of areas worst affected. a "very credible witness", that's what donald trump said last week about the woman who's accused judge kavanagh. now, he's mocked her testimony. how did you get home? i don't remember. how did you get there? i don't remember. where is the place? i don't remember. how many years ago? i don't remember. how many years ? i i don't remember. how many years ago? i don't know. vladimir putin has also been casting insults — he's called sergei skripal, the spy poisoned with nerve agent in salisbury, a traitor and a scumbag. and we'll be talking about fan bingbing, the chinese film star who disappeared for three months — now she's been hit by a massive fine, and made a statement praising the communist party. the number of people killed in indonesia keeps rising,

with more than 1,400 people now confirmed dead after friday's earthquake and tsunami on the island of sulawesi. efforts have largely been focused on the city of palu, where most of the confirmed dead have been counted, but the un has warned that large parts of what might be the "worst—affected" rural areas have not been reached. here's one of the rescuers in the village of donggala. translation: we've been here since friday. there hasn't been any rescue operation. we're still looking for the missing people manually. villagers alone, no heavy machinery. many of those from isolated places are taking matters into their own hands. translation: we walked for ten hours through the mountains from our village that was completely destroyed. we were that desperate foraid. iwas destroyed. we were that desperate for aid. i was so stressed about the children. the un says there are nearly 200,000 people in urgent need of help. that figure includes

thousands of children, and many have no access to running water or electricity. this is how many of the survivors are living — families with children in makeshift outdoor shelters, with many too scared to go back into buildings because of aftershocks. people have now begun to leave the island, with warships and ferries being commandeered as part of the evacuation effort. a major reason for the difficulty in getting aid to rural areas has been the damage to infrastructure. as well as mudslides, there have also been landslides which have led to blocked roads and villages left inaccessible. and in a separate incident, a volcano began erupting on the same island on wednesday. mount soputan is about 600 miles away from palu, and at present is not being seen as a threat to the aid operation. the bbc‘s mariko oi is in palu, where volunteers have started burying the dead in mass graves. things are slowly changing here in palu when the president made his

second visit today. he promised more aden. we are starting to see a bit of fat, four days we have talked about the lack of food and water, house of others that maclehose survivors can't get hold of them. but for the first few days we saw people selling food on the street and queueing up to get petrol inside the city instead of having to go out of palu. but the basic rescue operations and the discovery of the bodies is continuing, they discovered one body behind me in the shopping centre. we are hearing more details of the tragedies people have experienced. one of our correspondents visited an area practically swallowed by mudslides, including a school where all the children, probably, died. we also heard some happy stories, a surgeon we also heard some happy stories, a surgeon told is that after thinking his wife was missing for two day she returned this morning and he said it felt like he was falling in love

again, so there are some happy stories, many more tragedies. the challenging time continues. we're waiting for the fbi to provide the results of its inquiry into allegations against the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. he's being accused of sexually assaulting female students while in high school and college. he denies the allegations. but president trump made it clear what his position was at a rally in mississippi — by making fun of one of mr kavanaugh‘s accusers‘ dr christine blasey ford. how did you get home? i don't know. what neighbourhood was it in? i don't know. where is the house? i don't know. upstairs, downstairs, where was it? i don't know. but i had one beer. that's the only thing i remember. and a man's life is in tatters. a man's life is shattered. just a short time ago the white house press secretary defended the president's comments last night. the president was stating the facts

and, frankly, facts included in special prosecutor rachel mitchell's report, facts given during doctor ford's testimony. the senate has to decide based on those facts and whether or not they see judge kavanaugh to be qualified to hold the position on the supreme court. not everyone agrees. republican senator jeff flake is a key vote to confirm brett kavanaugh. he's being closely watched as republicans can potentially only afford one defection if they are to confirm their nominee. this is what he made of the president's remarks. there is no time or place for remarks like that, but to discuss something this sensitive at a political rally is not right, it is just not right. i wish she had not have done it. it is kind of appalling. jeff flake called for an expanded fbi investigation to take place in a deal struck with his democratic colleague chris coons. here's senator coons speaking to my colleague katty kay a little earlier.

i think it has been a significant step forward that senator flake made possible. he is a republican, i am a democrat, he is conservative, i am not. if he had not hit pause last friday, judge kavanaugh would already be on the court. that the fbi took several days to interview a range of witnesses, i think, was positive. i hope they have not already concluded their investigation, there are still a number of folks i think they should interview, but i think this moment, this respite of bipartisanship, sent a message to our colleagues in the country that when somebody like dr ford comes forward with credible allegations of assault they are investigated, not simply ignored. this is what the president said last week after hearing professor ford testify that mr kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when she was 15 and he was 17.

i feel that her testimony was very compelling and she looks like a very fine woman, to me. very fine woman. but certainly she was a very credible witness. here's some of what we heard from dr ford in the hearings. dr ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh certainty do you believe brett kava naugh assaulted you ? certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? 100%. certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? 10096. 10096? not everyone believes her. let me show you these pictures. these are some of president trump's supporters at that rally in mississippi. and this is what they said when asked who they believed — brett kavanaugh or professor ford. i presume you watched the hearing last week? could you tell me in a word, which the two you believe? judge kavanaugh. without a doubt. word, which the two you believe? judge kavanaugh. without a doubtlj

believe judge kavanaugh. one word to describe dr ford? liar. i want to bring up a tweet by my colleague katty kay. "the appeal was to men feeling under siege. the reality is that the number of women who are assaulted, and it never gets reported or prosecuted, is far higher than the number of men who are falsely accused of assault." i spoke to katty and asked her about the reaction to donald trump's comments at that rally. here in washington, from people on capitol hill, there has been pretty widespread condemnation. democrats do not like what they heard, but jeff fla ke do not like what they heard, but jeff flake under the republicans have said the comments were not appropriate, that they were appalling, in the words ofjeff fla ke. appalling, in the words ofjeff flake. i wonder if the president is onto something and whether a sense of dissatisfaction is brewing with democrats for the way this has been handled, a feeling amongst men that judge kavanaugh been falsely accused ulster during the course of the speech in mississippi the president appealed to mothers about their

sons, what if this was your son or brother being falsely accused? i think the polling is starting to suggest that are suffering because of the whole kavanaugh story, because the republican base is being galvanised and male voters are being galvanised and male voters are being galvanised because of the wayjudge kavanaugh galvanised because of the wayjudge kava naugh has galvanised because of the wayjudge kavanaugh has been treated. where are we with the fbi investigation? we hear that could be released imminently? it is now about 3pm in washington and it could, during the course of today. there could be a vote onjudge course of today. there could be a vote on judge kavanaugh course of today. there could be a vote onjudge kavanaugh later this week. i spoke to two democratic senators early this morning, two women who said they are feeling this effect in their own polling numbers of support the judge effect in their own polling numbers of support thejudge kavanaugh growing. one democratic senator in a red state said to me if he is going to be confirmed, let's get it over

with and confirmed quickly, her approval ratings have denied fairly dramatically and she put that down to these kava naugh dramatically and she put that down to these kavanaugh hearings. the democrats are saying we wanted the fbi hearing, we want it to be conclusive. we do not likejudge kavanaugh, but if he is to be confirmed, we needed fast because, politically, this is hurting us. there is the question of who accepts the report and who does not?|j there is the question of who accepts the report and who does not? i spoke to senator chris coons, the democratic senator who helped orchestrate the reopening of the background check, and i asked whether his democratic colleagues would accept this? you said no, that is when the problem will start, they don't feel it has been long will come pensive enough —— he said no. they would have liked to look at things likejudge they would have liked to look at things like judge kavanaugh‘s they would have liked to look at things likejudge kavanaugh‘s record on drinking, did he misrepresent himself to congress, is there a possibility that he committed

perjury? could the drinking habit to him blacking out and doing something he does not remember? quite a lot of democratic members would say this is not good enough, we do not like it, it has not been an investigation, it has been more of a whitewash. let's stay with donald trump. this is an article by the new york times. it says the president helped his parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes. you might remember during the election campaign mr trump billed himself as a self—made millionaire, but the report says "a times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s." the new york state tax department has confirmed it is investigating the claims. the president denies it and tweeted: "the failing new york times did something i have never seen done before. they used the concept of time value of money in doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me " here's sarah sanders again. it isa

it is a totally false attack based on an old recycled news story. i will not go through every single line of a very boring 14,000 word story. let's speak to anthony zurcher in washington. two aspects to this story, the tax implications and very different picture to the one donald trump has a lwa ys picture to the one donald trump has always like to portray of himself, striking deals, the author of his own success? exactly, let's talk about that second point first. the new york times criticised earlier coverage of donald trump, including new york times coverage, which painted him as a 20—something multimillionaire striking big deals and redeveloping manhattan. the reporter was taken on a tour of trump tower and a commodore hotel turned into the grand hyatt, donald trump bragged about his work there, when in reality both of those

projects were funded largely by loa ns projects were funded largely by loans guaranteed by fred trump, donald trump's father. time and time again donald trump's father served asa again donald trump's father served as a financial backstop to donald trump as he made these ambitious real estate and business deals, some of which failed and then had to be bailed out by his father. that is a very different picture than what donald trump likes to paint and something his father encouraged him to do, to make himself out to be this never failed to do, to make himself out to be this neverfailed business tycoon. as far as the tax implications go, this is a very involved story for the new york times but they have access to tax documents, tax records, financial records that show blood donald trump and his siblings set upa blood donald trump and his siblings set up a shell company that padded invoices that were then sent to donald trump's father for management services and sales to his apartment complexes and businesses, these inflated invoices allowed fred trump to send money to his children without paying estate taxes,

essentially funnelling the extra money to them. in itself, that is illegal, it would have been criminal. the statute of limitations has passed but there are civil liabilities which are an issue, which is white new yorkers looking into this. how much impact will this have on the donald trump reputation? —— which is why new york is looking into this? will it confirm the negatives for those who don't like donald trump, and not make any difference to those who support him? i think it will give meat to the people who believe donald trump inflated his business acumen, that his business empire was more built up his business empire was more built up thanks to the apprentice and the nbc-tv up thanks to the apprentice and the nbc—tv show that styled him as a freewheeling multi—billionaire. but people who support donald trump, and they are already saying this, he said he would try to pay as little taxes as possible within the law.

this was audited by the irs after the fact. while they adjusted some valuations and figures they eventually signed off on it, so it is no big deal. it is a fascinating portrait of donald trump and it will renew calls for donald trumpjulis his current tax returns, which he has not done, unlike many presidents. —— to release his current tax returns. if he was doing this in the 80s and 90s, people will ask what he has been doing since then. thank you, anthony zurcher in washington. stay with us on outside source — still to come... one of china's biggest film stars fan bingbing is fined over a hundred million dollars, months after she disappeared from public view. a four week inquest into the westminster bridge terror attack has found that all five victims were unlawfully killed by khalid masood. the coroner outlined masood's background in the lead up to the attack, including his convictions for violence and links to extremists.

melissa cochran, a us tourist, has spoken of how her husband died saving her life when he pushed her out of the way as masood accelerated towards them in a hire care. the pair had been on a sightseeing trip around europe to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. she had this to say about her husband's killer. you just didn't have the compassion for humans —— hejust didn't have the compassion for humans that kurt did, and for that i feel sorry for him. ifeel sorry for did, and for that i feel sorry for him. i feel sorry for his family. i feel sorry for people who think and feel sorry for people who think and feel that way. i think if we could just all find a little connection with each other, maybe some of this hate will go away. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is...

more than 1400 people are now known to have died in indonesia — the un warns help has yet to reach some of areas worst affected. other stories from around the bbc newsroom... we covered the story of the french gangster who escaped from a high—security jail using a hijacked helicopter here on outside source. well he's been recaptured. redoine faid, who was france's most wanted fugitive, was arrested by police on wednesday following a three—month manhunt. that's on the bbc world service. cristiano ronaldo has firmly denied rape allegations made against him by a former model, saying his conscience was clear. the footballer has been accused of rape by kathryn mayorga, who says ronaldo attacked her at a las vegas hotel in 2009. and this one's doing well on our website — an elderly woman in the uk had the shock of her life when she found a three foot snake in her oven. the woman was about to cook some chips when she discovered the african brown snake. it's believed to be an escaped pet and was later rescued from the oven by an animal charity.

this is fan bingbing. she's one of china's biggest film stars — and she's been missing for three months now. she was last seen in public on july 1st. well, she's resurfaced in the form of an announcement on chinese state tv. translation: in accordance with china's tax law, fan bingbing will be fined for mac returns the value of tax evaded, or 240 million yuen, for attempting to conceal her actual income. that's $129 million. now she will avoid criminal charges if the fines are paid on time. fan bingbing posted this herself on the social networking site weibo — where she has 62 million followers. "i've been suffering unprecedented pain recently. i'm so ashamed of what i've done. here, i sincerely apologise to everyone." we actually still don't know where she is. reports suggest she's been detained in a secret location.

kerry allen, who's a china media analyst at bbc monitoring, has been following the story. she's absolutely huge. if you think of celebrities like angelina jolie, the clouds and the fame that she has in the western world, fan bingbing is very much china's equivalent. she is very much china's equivalent. she is huge. she has over 60 million followers on weibo, which people use instead of facebook or twitter. for her to have seemingly gone missing for 100 days, not to have been heard of on social media, no media reports about her, this is a huge story in china and there has been a lot of reaction as a result. there is the phenomenon of a yin yang contract, how does that work and how do people react to this discrepancy between real earnings and what is declared? the government has been interested in cracking down on

these contracts for a long time. what you meant young contracts are, they are jewel contracts, one what you meant young contracts are, they arejewel contracts, one is giving saying a celebrity earns a certain fee and this is given to the state, a separate contract is given to the table which details a much higher your earning figure, which is not revealed. the government has been trying to reform china's entertainment industry and make a chinese version of hollywood which is almost bigger and better and can compete with hollywood, but it saves lots of production and entertainment companies pay massively inflated sums of money to secure one big—name, and what is happening as they are not putting enough effort into improving, for example, special effects, scripts, production values in these shows. it has been really trying to crack down on the earnings celebrities are making from these shows and to try to make a much broader across the broad for other people. china's tencent music has filed

a much—anticipated request to list its shares in the us. the listing is expected to be one of the biggest ever in the us by a chinese firm. analysts expect the listing to value tencent at around $25 billion. samira hussain is in new york for us. why has tencent opted to list in new york? there is a lot of chinese companies that have been coming to the us to list here, a big reason why they do so is because there is a lot of capital, a lot of availability of money. it is primarily to make money for their companies for them to invest. in the specific instance of tencent, this is their music streaming service which will be listing and operates differently to some of the streaming services we may be more familiar with, like spotify, for example. it makes a lot of money from

subscriptions and then offering advert free spaces, whereas tencent does not really operate on subscriptions. they only made 30% of subscriptions. they only made 30% of subscriptions. for them it is more people buying individual songs, buying music from their space and from advertising. what does the size of this planned launch say about investors‘ appetite for music? $25 billion. it is notjust music streaming, it has more to do with the chinese market. everybody wants to get into the chinese market. if you think about it they are responsible for about of a third of the world's consumers, so if you wa nt to the world's consumers, so if you want to make money and you have a consumer —based product, you will wa nt to consumer —based product, you will want to be involved in the chinese market. thank you, samira hussain in new york. a massive new gas exporting facility has got the green light to be built in canada. the $31 billion project is backed by the government and will allow huge amounts of liquefied natural

gas — or lng — to be sent to asia. the world's biggest lng trader, shell, is one of the foreign companies investing in the facility. analyst cornelia meyer says it's a major development. it's huge for canada, because canada hasn't really done lng before. it is a huge facility. in 2024 it will produce around 6.5 million tonnes per annum of lng and can run up to 26 million tonnes. the two because consumers so far have been korea and japan, but china is really, really ramping up —— the two biggest consumers. they are getting rid of the coal—fired power plants. shell thinks that by 2035 we will have doubled the demand for lng from where we are now, so it is big. many of us are looking for ways of becoming more environmentally conscious — but seaweed may not be the first thing that springs to mind. however an indonesian inventor has found new ways to use the marine algae — liz bonnin went to see how. what is this made of?

it's made out of seaweed. we're not using any chemical process. so we can use it for on the bar, then for the coffee sachet. stir it. that's great, that's a great cup of coffee. for soap, so you don't need to open the soap, we can just wash our hands. that dissolves really quickly. i presume the only nutrition in this is in the wrapper. while there are still some concerns about how seaweed farms might affect coastal ecosystems, the potential of this design is enormous. it seems to me to be such an exciting but, more im porta ntly, really concrete solution to the plastic problem.

and it's coming from a young indonesian. he's only 25 years old. it's coming from a country that's one of the biggest plastic polluters in the world. i can't wait to see what this guy achieves in the next few years. some breaking news for you — yesterday we reported on two packages delivered to the headquarters of the us department of defence suspected to contain the deadly substance well the pentagon has just given this update. "according to our preliminary analysis, the substance was castor seeds, from which ricin is derived. the fbi is still investigating." we will be back in a few minutes, stay with us. good evening. a world where the

round—up this evening, this stunning image from new york yesterday, a striking image as lightning hits the one world trade center as storms rumbled across the city. storms were here in new york and present towards the outburst in phoenix, arizona, where in 24/60 centimetres of rain fell, that is enough to make it phoenix's wettest october day on record. the remnants of hurricane rosa fizzled out as it moved inland, this is hurricane sergio which could follow a similar track by the end of the weekend and into next week. this cloud across western canada reduced huge amounts of snowfall for calgary, their heaviest early snowfall in 60 years. it has been pushing across the far north of the united states, and into winnipeg and northern parts of canada, introducing caldara macros south into upstate new york on the likes

of chicago, 18 degrees on thursday compared to just 30 celsius on wednesday and a noticeable drop, the cold air makes it to new york by the end of the week. things turn less cold and calgary but phoenix, after dry and sunny days, there could be more storms on the cards by the end of the weekend. heading for a massive typhoon in the western pacific, the latest one following a fairly similar track to the last one which was there last week. it is moving towards the west of the canal islands, a chain of islands and southern parts of japan. we could see winds of up to 130 mph. there could be some impacts to the west of time—honoured eastern china, but it looks like this typhoon could head toward south korea into the weekend. damaging winds, widespread flooding and ferocious seas. what you see behind me is not snow but hailfrom what you see behind me is not snow but hail from italy early this week. we have seen some very lively storms

and central parts of the mediterranean. they are still on the go at the moment, tonight they will affect parts of algeria, tunisia, sardinia, malta, sicily and spreading back into southern italy on thursday. it is an isolated anomaly, the rest of southern europe has a beautiful autumn day. for those in northern europe, strong winds, not feeling quite as cold as it has. through thursday and into friday, across the central mediterranean the storms will work across italy through parts of western greece, the adriatic parts of croatia. by adriatic parts of croatia. by saturday they could be in the northern adriatic. by northern adriatic. by this stage, turning wet and windy across the uk, more details with your weather for the week ahead in half an hour. this is outside source. more than 1,400 people are now known to have died in indonesia — the un warns help has yet to reach some of areas worst affected. a very credible witness, that's what donald trump said last

week about the woman who's accused judge kavanagh. now, he's mocked her testimony. how did you get home? i don't remember. where is the place? i don't remember. how many years ago was it? i don't know. vladimir putin has also been casting insults — he's called sergei skripal, the spy poisoned with nerve agent in salisbury, a traitor and a scumbag. and we'll hear from the woman blinded in one eye from a tee shot at the ryder cup — and from the golfer, who says it's one shot he'll always regret. you might remember that a couple of months ago there were protests in russia against proposed changes to pensions. president putin wants to raise the retirement age from 55 to 60 for women and to 65 for men. today the bill has been passed in the russian parliament,

paving the way for president putin to sign it into law. but the changes have proven very unpopular this graph shows how the president's approval rating has fallen since they were announced earlier this year. here's sarah rainsford in moscow. this is going to become law as far as we understand. despite huge lack of support for this change across the country. the polls that show that 90% of russians do not support its increase in the pension age. we have seen protests. they have not been huge but they have been very significant because russians don't generally come out on the streets in protest a nd generally come out on the streets in protest and in the past week and months we have seen the communist party taking streets in large numbers and they've been talking about this ca balistic numbers and they've been talking about this cabalistic reform. we have also seen supporters taking to

the streets again right across the country. there is significant opposition to this reform and in particular the key point that people keep bringing up is 65 doesn't sound like an extremely high age for men to be working to add to compare it to be working to add to compare it to the us and europe, but in fact russia the life expectancy for men is still only 67 and in many regions of russia many men simply do not live to 65. the problem is people are saying this is basically going to be that many many rush that will not live to retire. that's why there's such strong opposition to this reform. let's stay with russia, because president putin had some harsh words for sergei skripal, the former double agent poisoned in britain back in march. take a listen. translation: i see that some of your colleagues are promoting a theory that mr skripal was a kind of human rights activists, but he is just a spy. he betrayed his homeland.

there is a term. traitor. he is one of them. imagine all of a sudden you meet a man who betrayed his country. what would you say to him, to anyone? he is just riffraff. that's it. the british government has accused two russian intelligence officers of poisoning mr skripal and his daughter yulia with the nerve agent novichok in march. here are sarah's thoughts on mr putin's comments. they were the strongest language we have heard from president putin on this case. rights is the beginning and to britain began accusing russia of carrying out the boys think installs very. he referred directly to skripal and called him a traitor and contents,. he said that was the case for all traders and people who betray their country, and he was

really snarling as he spoke and sneering at times and occasionally there was forced laughter. really he was very strong in his comments and talked a bit more about the case. he said that britain had been asked to provide russia with documents with evidence of this case that russia had offered to take part in the investigation but russia has not seen that. he said if they saw the documents that russia would know what really went on. continuing russian denial of any involvement in the salisbury poisoning. he says that nobody needed poisoning. that sergei is a traitor, he was caught and punished it did five years in prison and then he was swapped. he went on to collaborate apparently with the agencies in the west, but so what? there was no need for him to be poisoned. strong language and essay and his language strong in itself is also accompanied by some pretty sna rly itself is also accompanied by some pretty snarly facial gestures from mr putin as well. particularly annoyed by this entire case.

the american golfer brooks koepka says he's desperate to speak to the woman who was blinded in one eye from one of his tee shots. the incident happened on friday, the first day of the ryder cup golf tournament that was taking place the outskirts of paris. corine remande, 49, said she could have died and is considering legal action against the organisers. here's mr koepka at a news conference today. we reached out to her and her husband to see how things were going. we did not hear back last night, so i am looking forward to speaking with her today or in the next few days, hours or whatever it might be. and as having a conversation with her and talking to her. because there's nobody that feels worse about this than i do. it's a tragic accident, what

happened. i am it's a tragic accident, what happened. iam heartbroken, i'm all messed up inside. i don't think... it would be the one shot i definitely regret. well the bbc‘s david orstein did manage to speak to christine remande, here she is on the incident. suddenly i feel something on me, but i don't realise what it is. it's all the people all around me saying oh, look, this lady, the ball hit this lady. i hope that with this terrible accident to improve this kind of safety for all of the public. sir david attenborough has urged the world not to panic about the state of the planet despite donald trump s decision to withdraw from the paris climate accord. sir david has told stories of our

planet for more than 60 years, and says we can still be optimistic about its future. here he is speaking to the bbc earlier today. up to five years ago i was really very pessimistic. the paris agreement as you say will, the time to be at last the nations committed senses. i walked out of those conferences, i was there, alongside the chief scientist of this country. he was walking on air. he said we've got it, we've got the agreement! and we have got the agreement, it is true that president trump does not go along with it. and to what extent the united states will withdraw from it we will see. my suspicion is that people will realise that actually the united states and the attitude is outdated.

it does not apply anymore, and i think that will be overcome. there are, a groundswell internationally of recognising what we are doing to the planets and the disaster that awaits unless we do something. the trouble is the problem is getting and worse by the day and we don't have time to spare. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web including the latest on the relief efforts in indonesia, you can find out where aid has got to, and also read about why some of the worst hit areas have yet to receive any help. the british prime minister, has isued a rallying cry, over the uk's exit from the european union — saying she is not afraid of a ‘no—deal brexit‘ — if nothing better is agreed. a prime minister's speech to their party conference is serious politics.

but she made her entrance, on a lighter note. music as swedish ambassador i can only say bravo to theresa may for starting her conference speech with abba 5 dancing queen. mrs may soon got down to business though — she began by calling for decency in politics. let's rise above the abuse. let's pick a positive case for our values that they will cut the bitterness and bile that is poisoning our politics. on brexit, the prime minister urged her fellow party members to get behind the so—called chequers plan — her blueprint for leaving the eu. theresa may is under extreme pressure from all sides. eu leaders have said parts of it is unworkable — members of her own party have vowed to vote against the plan. borisjohnson — who was so against

it he quit as foreign secretary — said this yesterday. this is the moment, this is the moment to do that and there is time! this is the moment to stop chequers. but she's sticking with it, once again emphasising that hers is the only plan on the table. the prime minister also explained why she would not rule out the no—deal brexit option. ifi if i did that, i would weaken our negotiating position and have to agree to whatever the eu offers. and at the moment that would mean accepting one of two things. either accepting one of two things. either a deal that keeps us in the eu in all but name twinkies is freer movement and vast annual payments and stops assigning trade deals with other countries or a deal that

carves off northern ireland, a part of this country effectively leaving it in the eu custom union. let us send a clear message from this hall today. we will never accept either of those choices. applause from the crowd there. this speech has been described as one of her strongest yet — and on any scale it went better than last years — you may remember a prankster handed her a p45 — which is the form employers fill out when they're leaving a job. the prime minister was terribly ill with a cold and then her party slogan fell apart — literally. but none of that today — here was herfinal rally cry. when we come together, there is no limit to what we can achieve. hours isa limit to what we can achieve. hours is a great country. our future is in out is a great country. our future is in

our hands. together, let's seize it. together let's build a better britain. one person who probably wasn't giving a standing ovation is this man — conservative mp james duddridge, who's submitted this letter, calling for a leadership contest. in it he wrote "we need a strong leader, someone who believes in brexit. the prime minister seems incapable of doing this." jonathan blake is in westminster in central london. how serious is this letter? on its own it's not. the conservative party have rules about what can trigger a leadership challenge and there has to bea leadership challenge and there has to be a certain portion of the punditry party and conservative party m ps punditry party and conservative party mps that send a letter to the chairman of their committee. if that reaches a certain number that triggers a vote of no—confidence in the prime minister and leader of the party, and that if she wins that she isa party, and that if she wins that she is a safe from another challenge and if she loses it that would trigger a

leadership contest. he was really trying to make things awkward for the prime minister and the prime minister certainly outweighed that with the reception you saw. she govern the party faithful there judged by all concerned to be a vast improvement on last year possibly ever. the lobar was that by what you mentioned she put all that behind her today and did what she needed to do with that speech which was remind everybody of her vision for the party and for britain under a conservative government. to bring to the table some policy ideas which people have been really keen to hear the prime minister. a bit of a feeling that the party has not really articulate what it's about and has not come up with eye—catching policies that people can believe in. in the face of for what is from a people and attractive

offer. she also went some way to addressing the concerns people have within the party about her break the policy. that was criticised in different parts of the party for different parts of the party for different reasons. some people want her to go much further and cut ties with you more clearly. others want her to pursue a much closer relationship with the eu in the future. she did not mention the c word, chequers, the name given to her brexit plan. she talked only today from a free—trade agreement that would allow for fiction list trade between britain and the european union. some are saying as a sign that she might give way and may be coming around to their way of thinking a bit and she might be preparing the ground to loosen start in negotiations with the eu. no sign how are they that she is going to do that. the time being i think she's ranked her position and and a lot of

people popularize within the party but she has a birmingham bounce that she's coming back to london with a spring in her step and the party members have a spring in their step i think it might well be short—lived because the problems facing her and the positions he is and still remains very tricky indeed. the international court of justice has ruled against us sanctions on iran. the icj is the united nations‘ highest court and is based in the hague in the netherlands. today it gave orders to the united states to ensure that sanctions against iran do not impact humanitarian aid or civil aviation safety. the court sided with tehran and said that exports of "humanitarian" goods — such as food and medicine — should be allowed. the united states, in accordance with their obligations and in 1935 treaty must remove any impediments

arising from the measures announced on may eight, 2018 to the free exportation to the territory of iran of the requirement for humanitarian needs. they called a vector of the rule of law and while it's simply binding they have not get any power to enforce them. the us has dismissed the ruling and here mike pompeo. we're disappointed the court failed to recognise that has no jurisdiction to issue any order relating to the sanctions of the united states. which it is doing its work on iran to protect its own essential security risks. since president tremper through the us from the 2015 nuclear deal and us sanctions were introduced to the iranian economy has slumped. and the value of the current scene has plummeted. the european union has offered iran

some hope. the eu remains one of iran's biggest trading partners and recently discussed a payment scheme to bypass sanctions. iran 5 foreign minister, one of the chief architects of the 2015 nuclear deal, spoke to the bbc‘s lyse doucet about this. what was important for us was to see the political commitments of europe and see that that political commitment was more than just words, andi commitment was more than just words, and i think we have been able to test that. now we have to test the viability and utility of this new system that they are devising. earlier i spoke to rana rahimpour from bbc persian and asked her what effect the ruling actually has. it makes enron look good. and it confirms their argument, but in practice not much is going to happen. because iran can take this judgement to the security council but we know the us has veto power and will veto it. the americans have announced they are leaving the 1955

agreement between the countries and so agreement between the countries and so there's not binding, the americans are just going to reject it. so the court can say what it likes and they are not going to make the us changed the course. is there anything iran is hoping will change the course following this judgement? i'm sure they're hoping the us will change course but i don't think it looks very likely. today mike pompeo kimmitt said it's ridiculous and they rejected it. john bolton also came out and confirmed what the secretary has said. so unless iran agrees to negotiate with the us or change its behaviour according to what the americans want him to do there won't be any real changes. with the us what does it do for their self—esteem? it with the us what does it do for

their self—esteem ? it support with the us what does it do for their self—esteem? it support among those countries that still want the agreement as nuclear deal to be maintained? it will be a boost their confidence because it has proven that they were right. anybody that believes a court with a vote of approval feels happy and iran is feeling the same. the fact is that they have always maintained that they have always maintained that they were in the right. they have confirms 12 times that iran has been coming to the nuclear deal and the unders signatories of the deal apart from the us believe the iran has been committed. once again they prove that they are right in the sanctions and they're not supposed to be there but there it seemed that the united states wants to keep them in place. australia will become the first country to effectively eliminate cervical cancer if current vaccination and screening rates are maintained — that according to researchers. a new study published today says the disease could be eradicated as a public health issue nationally within 20 years.

to give you an idea of the size of the problem, globally sanchia aranda is the ceo of cancer council australia. she spoke to the bbc from kuala lumpur where she's attending the world cancer congress. australia has been vaccinating girls forjust over ten years and boys assents since 2013. and that is really leading to a terrific herd immunity across the population. we still have a big problem in indigenous australians and so we will need renew efforts there. agile is showing that we have the tools globally to illuminate this cancer as now we just need to go through the political will and action. in sub—saharan africa is the worst affected and although the low—income countries have much higher death rates and so if we don't do something over 250,000 women dying every year now will double by 2014. let's go to finland now.

this tweet from an mp from the anti—immigration finns party has caused a big reaction. teachers incite and encourage hatred for democratically elected politicians. in primary and secondary schools". with it, this picture. a poster made by some 15 year—old students who were asked to tackle a social issue. they chose immigration. some migrants in a boat choosing where to go. the title on the left "suomeen" means ‘to finland'. underneath that, the faces of some establishment politicians. on the right "kuoleen" — meaning ‘to death‘ — and underneath that, pictures of the nationalists including laura huhtasaari, who sent the tweet. immigration is a hot—button issue in finland. it's one of a number of northern european countries which have taken in signiicant numbers of migrants in recent years. the story about this was one of the most read on bbc online today, diedre finnerty wrote it, she told me about it. really got people going is the fact

that when she twitted the photo of the poster that offended her so much did not obscure the first names of the students involved. so a lot of people criticise her because at the teacher she should know about protection and they fell she was deliberately putting their names out there, and as a result there is even on my backlash that they were exposed to a violent threat. they're only 15 years old. as a result security card has been put outside. what sort of thing is she known for? she's a prominent and emigration nationalist permits politician. she supports brexit and she said she models herself on nigel farage. she is somebody that is very much to the right of the finnish politics. she's a prominent member of the finns

party and ran in this year's presidential election. she got about six of the vote but it raised her profile. she was also in the news because she has been accused of plagiarizing her masters thesis which for a teacher is something that did not go down very well with that did not go down very well with that finished voters. she herself has denied those accusations. how much of that is because how big of an issue immigration is the moment? we've seen it across a lot of countries in scandinavia that attitudes towards immigration are hardening. never in 2015 during the minor crisis be finished by mr famously said that he would open his house to migrants and it was thought he was later he rolled back on that. finland during the micro crisis had offered to take in about 13,000 under eu proposals. that's more than countries with a lot bigger

populations. alec stewart figures last year and only 5000 successful asylu m last year and only 5000 successful asylum applications in finland. also the last time a survey was done that was reported widely in the finnish media about 2015, a lot of people surveyed said they would prefer to live next to an alcohol rehabilitation centre than they would next to a mosque and so with parties like the thin party who are really tapping into an anti—immigration sentiment. really tapping into an anti-immigration sentiment. you can see her article on the bbc website. that's it from outside source. goodbye for now. hello there. the weather for the beginning of october has been a pretty messy story to try to tell. for most rather cloudy but yesterday we had breaks the cloud across the

south coast and now this was west sussex and although i'm just illustrating the point across southern england i can take almost any city to tell this story. we started off the week on a cool note before we had a milder air pushing into the middle part of the week and then cooler air centre return. where we sing this roller coaster type of feeling the weather? it's all tied into the jet stream. the jet stream is to the north of the uk we allow this milder air to flood in but once the jet stream takes a dip down to the jet stream takes a dip down to the south cooler air for a time is then replaced by martin milder air with the jet stream undulating like a roller coaster across the uk. it could be the story for the remainder of this week and into next. at the moment we are in this mild flow with southwest airstream that striving in this time of year with cloud of fairly murky conditions. the weather from pushing into the northwest and i'll introduce something cooler with that. on friday that frontal system will be the dividing line between something warmer that the south and

they forget sunshine can highs of 21 degrees. but to the north of that weather front cooler air starting to push in with ten to 12 degrees here. so as we moved out of friday that weather front still a dominant feature. we're going to see another low— pressure feature. we're going to see another low—pressure starting to develop and pushing it from the southwest. so on saturday we could see significant rain. still the dividing line between that warmer air to the southeast corner but something a little bit cooler prescience from the north. so for the start of the week and we could see rain with some of heavy and a good inch pushing its way across england and wales. it will arrive to the southeast corner by the end of the day and behind it somewhat drier and brighter than cooler conditions. 10 degrees at the maximum into the north and highest values into the south. perhaps at 16 or 17 celsius. as a move out of saturday and sunday still smell of wet weather to combat high pressure builds behind allowing things to

warm upjusta builds behind allowing things to warm upjust a little bit and before that we could start off on quite a chilly note with clear skies on the far north of scotland and the rain still to clear away from the far southeast. at the moved out of sunday that rain will be lingering and easing away, and we will see little bit more sunshine coming through, and again the wonderful start to build from the west. not a bad day for the second half of the weekend. temperatures will sit around 11 to 15 degrees the overall high. as a move out of sunday into monday we still have that southwest flow turning to drag something a little bit warmer across the country but the same time another front bring it more wetter and windier weather toppling that high. here the temperatures more disappointing but we should seek temperatures is turning to the high teens perhaps on that day in the far southeast corner. originally we would thought that there was going to be a level of uncertainty to the position of the high pressure but it does look

as though they will build further east into europe and allowed the pressures to move into the far north and west. it does look as though further ahead the wettest of the weather is always likely to be into the far northwest. the driest and warmest of the weather just like we have been seeing in recent days is the southeast. take care. tonight at 10: the prime minister warns that divisions over brexit could derail the uk's plans to leave the european union. an upbeat message to the conservative conference — mrs may urged her party to come together behind her plans. if we all go off in different directions in pursuit of our own visions of the perfect brexit, we risk ending up with no brexit at all. the prime minister also told delegates that better days were ahead, and that ten years of austerity were at an end. a decade after the financial crash, people need to know

that the austerity it led to is over and that their hard work has paid off. we'll have more from the conference, where mrs may also announced new policies on council housing and cancer treatment.