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. also tonight... the latest on the victims of the indonesian earthquake and tsunami, as more details emerge of the devastating consequences.

all of this was dragged by the mudslide from right over there, behind those palm trees. the death of a police officer in the westminster bridge attack last year would have been prevented, according to a coroner. —— could have been. last week, this woman's testimony about an alleged sexual attack by a supreme court nominee was admired by president trump — now, it's a different response. how did you get home? i don't remember. how'd you get there? i don't remember. where was the place? i don't remember. how many years ago was it? i don't know... i don't know. applause. and — barcelona shine against tottenham in the champions league at wembley. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news: uk sport announce plans to bring sport's biggest events to britain, including the world athletics. good evening.

the prime minister has warned the conservative party that continued divisions over brexit could derail the uk's departure from the eu. she told the party conference in birmingham that pursuing a "perfect brexit", could result in "no brexit at all". and she suggested that a favourable brexit deal, could lead to the end of austerity policies, which started a decade ago. she announced an end to the cap on local authority borrowing in england, to boost the building of new council houses. and she announced a new cancer strategy, pledging to increase early detection rates from 50% to 75%, by 2028. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. from birmingham. that really is abba.

that really is the prime minister dancing onto the stage, laughing with herself, when her political situation has been anything but funny. # you can dance, you canjive...# in a time of division, a plea, to her party, and to the country — to stick together. let's make a positive case for our values that will cut through the bitterness and bile that is poisoning our politics, and let's say it loud and clear: conservatives will always stand up for a politics that unites us rather than divides us. applause. we need to be a party for the whole country, because today, millions of people who have never supported our party in the past, are appalled by whatjeremy corbyn has done to labour. they want to support a party that is decent, moderate and patriotic, one that puts the national

interest first. we must show everyone in this country that we are that party. first, with a personal story, a new plan for cancer testing. a few years ago, my god—daughter was diagnosed with cancer, she underwent treatment and it seemed to be working, but the cancer came back. last summer, she sent me a text to tell me she was hoping to see another christmas. but she didn't make it. today, i can announce a new cancer strategy, funded through our 70th birthday investment, which will form a central part of our long—term plan for the nhs. there was no hiding from the fact her brexit plans have been trashed by some at this conference. we've had disagreements in this party about britain's membership of the eu for a long time, so it's not surprise we've had

a range of different views expressed this week. but myjob as prime minister is to do what i believe to be in the national interest, and there plenty of prominent people in british politics, in parliament and out of it, who want to stop brexit in its tracks. we had the people's vote, and the people chose to leave. beyond brexit, though, a vow to make it easier for councils to build more houses, and then a direct promise to the public that might be hard to keep. because you made sacrifices, there are better days ahead because 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. applause. quite some claim. there is no sign the chancellor

is in much of a mood to write bigger cheques, and their fate, her fate, the country's fate, will be shaped by the final stages of the brexit talks in the next few weeks. we stand at a pivotal moment in our history. together, let's seize it. together, let's build a better britain! applause. relief written on her face, and heard in their applause. her moment, then his moment, too. theresa may's dilemmas don't disappear. but today, she found her voice again. that was a hug of congratulation, not comfort. for a prime minister who's been almost permanently under attack,

this was a day to show you and them in the hall that she thinks she still has what it takes. what you saw was a prime minister coming onto the stage, bursting with energy, dancing literary onto the stage, comfortable in her own skin. do you think that speech might have changed the mood? it's been a difficult time for the party. i think definitely has. you can feel it now. you can feel the buzz. this is a leader to take us through this critical moment in our history. she's found her mojo. thisjob done, she leaves birmingham seeming less at the mercy of events. many here still wonder if she can really make it through. but now, it's back to work. after today, she has a little more space to try. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, birmingham. let's talk a little more about the

speech. one of the prime minister's main policy pledges was to allow local authorities in england to spend more money on building more council houses. our home editor mark easton is with me. what did you make of the announcement? well, that was a surprise! a tory prime minister's big announcement — letting english towns halls build a lot more council housing. not since harold macmillan has the conservative party sounded as enthusiastic about the subject as theresa may did this afternoon. solving the housing crisis is the biggest domestic policy challenge of oui’ biggest domestic policy challenge of our generation. it doesn't make sense to stop councils from playing their part in solving it. so today, ican their part in solving it. so today, i can announce that we are scrapping that cap. at the moment, the amount councils in england can borrow to build new homes is capped. local authority housing debt is currently about £26 billion. but once the cap comes off, they can use their housing stock as collateral against much more — probably an additional £io—15 billion of borrowing.

that money could be used to build an extra 15—20,000 new council homes every year for ten years. to put that in perspective, in the last year for which we have figures, fewer than 6,000 social rent homes were completed in england. so, today's announcement could triple supply, although with a million families on the waiting list for a council house, that's still well short of demand. this will enable a big increase in the amount of social housing. the traditional council that was a third of the new houses developed in this country historically, that means that all those families who are on waiting lists have now got a realistic prospect of finding out council home for the first time in many years. the extra borrowing would be ring—fenced for housing and most of those new homes look likely to be traditional council houses at a social rent, although some may be shared ownership. it'll take time for councils to take full advantage of their new freedom, so it is unlikely the boost to social housing supply will happen for some years yet. thank you, mark easton, our home

affairs correspondent. we can talk to our economics editor kamal ahmed at the treasury. does this declaration today tie the hands of the treasury for months to come?” think it might do, to an exam. in three weeks‘ time, the chancellor of the exchequer has to deliver his budget. before this rather optimistic speech about the public finances and the economy, the treasury was being cautious, pointing out all the hard work that had gone into fixing the public finances shouldn‘t be thrown away or more borrowing and more spending, saying that the big pledge on the nhs already had to be paid for probably by tax rises. and, of course, the big risk around brexit. certainly, the prime minister has

changed the tone of that type of narrative, saying ruling out one big possibility of a tax rise, a tax rise on petrol, saying it won‘t happen. discounts for borrowing for housing means there is more doubtful the government to carry. and saying the government to carry. and saying the end of austerity. well, the fa cts the end of austerity. well, the facts tell a slightly different story. the amount per person being spent at the moment and schools, and police, will fall this year. next year and the year after, following the announcement by the government, and we still have £12 billion worth of benefit cuts to come. so the prime minister is making a promise for the future. the reality todayis promise for the future. the reality today is austerity is still with us and that makes it a tough challenge for the chancellor and that budget in three weeks‘ time. for the chancellor and that budget in three weeks' time. thank you. the authorities in indonesia have set a deadline of friday to find anyone still trapped under rubble, following last week‘s earthquake and tsunami. after that, they say there is little chance of finding survivors. at least moo people

are known to have died. 0ur correspondentjonathan head sent this report from palu — one of the worst—hit areas on the island of sulawesi. even now, five days after the earthquake, the tsunamis and the mudslides, the damage wrought on this part of indonesia still has the power to shock. some buildings crumpled... others were literally swallowed by mud. it was the mud that did for petobo, a neighbourhood to the east of the city. fields of rice, shaken loose by the earthquake, that poured down the hillside. it buried the mother and baby sister of fiona, not yet two—years—old, who was pulled from the mud by her older brother. she‘s being cared for by her aunt. translation: she often asks, "where‘s my mum?" "where has my mother gone?" i tell her we‘re still looking for her, or i say, "your mother has gone on a long journey."

if she hears a loud noise or a plane going overhead, she‘s scared. she‘s still traumatised. over here, it was even worse. a road, and all the houses along it, obliterated by mud. astonishingly, this cornfield has travelled more than a mile. and this mad jumble of wreckage is the remains of at least two villages. they scarcely know where to begin recovering the bodies of the victims. this was a christian study centre. there were 200 students there when it was torn from its foundations. just try to imagine the terrible force that uprooted these front pillars of the church and toppled them over, and that flattened this massive concrete roof here. even now, they don‘t know how many victims may still be underneath, and all of this was dragged

by the mudslide, from right over there, behind those palm trees. one of the students was martin‘s 17—year—old son, gabriel. he‘s already resigned himself to the near certainty of his death. "every parent hopes for a son", he said. "now i just want to recover his body, for a proper burial in my home town." the collective loss suffered by the people of this city is incalculable. help is on the way now. it will be needed for a very long time. jonathan head, bbc news, palu, indonesia. more than 70,000 people have been displaced as a result of that earthquake and tsunami. thousands are now desperately trying to leave the island. many are heading to the airport, which has become a makeshift hospital.

it is also the hub for the relief effort, where aid is slowly arriving. 0ur correspondent hywel griffith reports from the airport in palu. they want a way out, but for many camped overnight at palu‘s airport, there‘s no prospect of leaving. after the tsunami, thousands flocked here, hoping to be airlifted. but five days on, rani and her family of 20 are still here, still waiting. she told me that they felt the tremors continue. she‘s so worried another earthquake will come, she won‘t go inside the terminal, in case it collapses. and you can see why. inside, walls have fallen, the building has buckled. it may not look like it, but this airport is stilljust about able to function, despite bricks falling from the wall, broken glass, tangled metal over in the baggage hall. this is the only airport anywhere near the disaster zone, so it simply has to keep going. the airport has also become

a makeshift hospital, using the medical aid that‘s been flown in, but there are reminders everywhere that the death toll is rising. in the middle of all this, commercialflights have resumed — check—in done by hand. this man has tickets for his whole family to leave, afraid that law and order in the city has broken down. even the government was being, like, attacked, and when you were driving into car, you are constantly in fear of living, because you don‘t really know what‘s going to happen next. aid for those who remain is now getting through. tomorrow, shelter kits and solar lanterns will be flown from britain. for many here, help can‘t come soon enough. hywel griffith, bbc news, at palu airport. we can join our correspondent nick beake in palu now. let‘s have your latest assessment of

this aid effort and how much difficulty they are having getting the aid through. you do get a sense that a more coherent plan is now coming together after a fairly slow start. inevitable, you may say, bearing in mind the remote geography of this place. it takes 2a hours by car from the south part of the island to reach the tip where we are in the north. but on the journey we did season convoys north. but on the journey we did season convoys of a. that will be a promising site for many people. also due to the fact seven planes arrived today full of aid and we expect a flight today full of aid and we expect a flight from the uk to take off tomorrow as part of the effort. in terms of trying to assess the picture, i‘m outside palu and that‘s difficult. as we saw injonathan‘s report the destructive nature of the mud may mean we neverfind out the true number of people who died. the government do insist they have moved to safety from the most remote hillside areas all the people living there. at tonight the living are

living very much in fear, because if you look at the coastline here it is illuminated by bonfires because people do not have power, and also they are sleeping outside. they don‘t trust going back into their houses. there have been more than 360 after—shocks here and people are worried. nick, thanks for the latest, nick bea ke worried. nick, thanks for the latest, nick beake in palu. the metropolitan police has apologised, after the coroner at the inquests into the westminster bridge attacks concluded the murder of an unarmed officer outside parliament could have been prevented. the coroner said if there had been armed officers present, then they could have stopped khalid masood from stabbing pc keith palmer. four people died when masood ran over pedestrians on westminster bridge in march last year, before going on to attack pc palmer. from the old bailey, our correspondent daniel sandford reports. the last calm moments of what had been just another westminster day. american tourist kurt cochran with his wife melissa,

pensioner leslie rhodes returning from hospital, aysha frade texting her husband on her way to pick up her kids from school, andreea cristea, a tourist from romania, and pc keith palmer, guarding the main gates to parliament. but in 82 seconds of terror, they were all left with fatal injuries. the shocking deaths produced searching questions, not least about armed policing in parliament. pc keith palmer‘s wife asked how he was left alone and unarmed at the open gates to one of the country‘s top terrorist targets, where he heroically challenged khalid masood, who was wielding two knives. his attacker had to be shot dead by a ministerial bodyguard. the armed officers who should have been at the gate were some 50 metres away. with pc palmer‘s family listening in, the chief coroner mark lucraft said today... that devastating finding prompted

this immediate apology. even the possibility that the met lost the chance to prevent the murder of such a brave and courageous officer is unacceptable. for the loss of that possibility to protect him from khalid masood, we are deeply sorry. pc palmer‘s sister and mother have accused senior officers of closing ranks. there was also a lack of protection for pedestrians on the bridge. masood used a rented hyundai 4x4 to run people down, first striking kurt cochran, whose wife melissa survived because he pushed her out of the way. knowing that he saved me sure makes me want to make him proud and... ..recover the best i can and just go

on and do what i can for my family and... ..and myself. the bereaved families think attacks on pedestrians in nice and berlin the previous year should have led to barriers on westminster bridge. the last big issue is what mi5 already knew about masood. a senior mi5 official told the coroner that, over the years, khalid masood had been linked to an al-qaeda bomber and members of the banned group al—muhajiroun, and in 2010 had been listed as a known extremist and an official subject of interest, before dropping off the radar. his murder of aysha frade left two daughters without a mother, and her husband told me he felt m15 had failed to protect her. the one thing that i absolutely want to do is to ensure that no other family goes

through the horrendous pain that myself and my family have gone through. a pain also felt by pc palmer‘s widow, who said his force had left him — at a vulnerable location with no protection — to die. daniel sandford, bbc news. pret a manger is to label all of its products with a full list of ingredients, following the death of a 15—year—old girl who suffered a fatal allergic reaction to one of its sandwiches. natasha ednan—laperouse collapsed on board a flight injuly 2016 after eating a product that did not have sesame listed as an ingredient. at the inquest last week a coroner called for better labelling rules. one of the last survivors to escape the grenfell tower fire has given evidence to the public inquiry into the disaster. he‘s one of the first residents of the block to do so. antonio roncolato said he only realised how serious the fire

was when his son sent him a photograph of the burning building from outside. last week, president trump was full of admiration for the woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted some 30 years ago by brett kavanaugh — thejudge nominated by the president for a seat on the us supreme court. but that message had changed by last night when the president ridiculed professor christine blasey ford at a republican rally — as our north america editorjon sopel reports. for two weeks now since christine blasey ford‘s accusations of sexual assault against brett kavanaugh emerged the white house has kept a tight lid on its response. indeed, the day after her distressing testimony the president was full of praise and respect for her. i thought her testimony was very compelling and she looks like a very fine woman to me. but last night at a rally in mississippi that all changed. restraint, forget it. donald trump cracked his knuckles and was ready to fight. he mocked dr ford.

"how did you get home?" "i don‘t remember." "how‘d you get there?" "i don‘t remember." "where is the place?" "i don‘t remember." "how many years ago was it?" "i don‘t know." "i don‘t know..." cheering. "i don‘t know!" "what neighbourhood was it in?" "i don‘t know." "where‘s 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. and trump supporters we spoke to at the rally were singing the same tune. if i was a victim like she says she was, you think i‘m going to go to my politician? i‘m going to go to authority. i think that something happened but i think she's got the wrong person. anybody can sound believable. if i sit here and tell you, "oh, poor me," i'm like, "oh, this happened to me..." you sound good but you've got to have corroborating evidence. and despite the controversy his remarks have

provoked there‘s no rowing back at the white house today. he‘s pointing out factual inconsistencies. do you have corroboration for her claims? have you found...? excuse me, can you fill in her memory gaps or her factual inconsistencies? that is part of the evidence gathering process in any hunt for truth. but this will be decided by senators on capitol hill and key republicans who will vote on the outcome were left uneasy. to discuss something this sensitive in a political rally is just not right. it's just not right. i wish he hadn't done it and ijust say it's kind of appalling. the vote, when it comes, will be tight. naturally all attention has focused on those republicans opposing brett kavanaugh. but in the opposite direction there are democrats in strongly republican areas facing re—election in a few weeks‘ time who might calculate their only chance

of political survival is to vote for him. and in this town survival tends to come first. all eyes are now on this building. fbi headquarters. investigators are reported to have finished their supplemental background check on brett kavanaugh. the report won‘t be published but each senator will be able to read a copy. on that basis they‘ll cast their vote and bring this tortuous and profoundly divisive episode to a close. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. a spectator at the ryder cup in paris, who was blinded in one eye after she was hit by a golf ball, says she was lucky not to have been killed, and is planning to sue the organisers. corine remande was struck as golfer brooks koepka teed off on the sixth hole. she‘s been speaking to our sports correspondent david 0rnstein. this time last week, golf fans corine and raphael remande arrived in paris to watch the world‘s leading players in action. but their enjoyment was cut short. with the remandes among thousands lining the fairway for this brooks koepka shot,

few could have foreseen what was to follow. suddenly i feel something on me, but i don‘t realise what is it. it is all the people around me said, "oh, look, this lady, the ball catch this lady." corine underwent emergency surgery on her right eye but has been told she will never regain sight. it‘s the last thing they or koepka would have imagined. there's nobody that feels worse about this than i do, you know, it's a tragic accident, what happened. i mean, i'm heartbroken, i'm all messed up inside. as keen golfers themselves corine and raphael accept the risks that come with buying a ticket. though, they are calling for improvements to spectator safety of these events. safety at these events.

i hope that, with this terrible accident, to improve this kind of safety for all the public. the european tour‘s chief executive keith pelley told the bbc that fan safety is their paramount concern. to most, this ryder cup will be remembered for the right reasons. for corine and raphael, it won‘t. but the hope is their misfortune will not be repeated. david 0rnstein, bbc news, lyon. the footballer cristiano ronaldo has said he "firmly" denies raping a woman in a us hotel room nine years ago. the juventus striker said he was tranquil about any investigations as he had a "clear conscience". the claims against him were first reported in a german news magazine and relate to an alleged incident in a hotel in las vegas. ronaldo‘s lawyers say they will sue the publication. zoe ball has been announced as the new presenter of bbc radio 2‘s breakfast show.

she‘ll be taking over from chris evans injanuary, and becomes the first female breakfast show host on radio 2 — something she achieved on radio 1. the bbc has not revealed her new salary yet, but says it will be made public in the annual bbc pay disclosures next year. there was a thrilling match at wembley in the champions league tonight as barcelona beat spurs 4—2, while liverpool conceded a late winner at napoli. 0ur sports correspondent joe wilson reports. two minutes to eight, someone was missing at wembley. any ideas? is he playing? well, bad news, spurs. yes, messi was there. and tottenham‘s goalkeeper was perfectly placed — for now. messi on the ball in barcelona‘s first proper attack, distributing. here comes keeper lloris. well, what about the goal? vacant. second minute, 1—0, coutinho. hugo lloris has missed a lot of football for various reasons.

he now needed a comeback in his comeback. what he got was this. barcelona‘s second goal. rakitic onto it! 0h, whata hit! now, remember tottenham have one of the best forwards in world football, don‘t they? here‘s harry kane with one of his own. so, lionel messi, back to you. lost sight of him again? there he is. 3—1 to barcelona. game over? well, no. erik lamela had a chance to shoot and took it. 3-2. spurs were back in it. but guess who was in the perfect place to win it? tottenham‘s mess — and messi‘s finish. six goals in north london. down in napoli it looked like there wouldn‘t be any. liverpool survived countless close shaves, especially this one.