we'll get the latest. also this lunchtime. video of the moment police react to first reports of a gunman in las vegas — and the first responder who knew his daughter was only yards away. i cannot describe it as anything but carnage. there were bodies laying on the ground and there were people running around that were shot. spain's political crisis worsens — as catalonia says it will declare independence in a matter of days. an army fitness instructor accused of trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute appears in court. amazon is ordered to repay more than £220 million in back taxes — over an unfair tax deal in luxembourg. and coming up in the sport on bbc news: the england all—rounder ben stokes will miss the ashes if he is still under police investigation when the tour to australia begins. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. theresa may has delivered a difficult keynote speech to delegates at the conservative party conference in manchester. the prime minister suffered coughing fits throughout the speech, repeatedly struggling with her voice. it was not the only setback for mrs may, who was interrupted by a prankster, who handed her a piece of paper marked p45. in her speech, the prime minister apologised for her party's performance in this year's general election, saying the campaign had been "too scripted, too presidential." and she promised to build a new generation of council houses by investing two billion pounds in affordable housing. our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. some thought she might not make it to this point. after a tough election, it has been a tricky conference. now she needs to prove she can lead her party and the country. the prime minister's speech today was not a victory cry, but a recognition of the challenge the conservatives face and the choices she is made. for the election result, an apology. we did not get the victory we wanted because our national campaign fell short. it was too scripted, to presidential, and it allowed the labour party to present us as the face of continuity, when the public wanted the message of change. i hold my hands up for that. i take responsibility. i led the campaign andi responsibility. i led the campaign and i am sorry. mrs mae defended her pa rty‘s record and i am sorry. mrs mae defended her party's record in government and said they must set out ideas for the next generation. she suggested a change in approach to organ donation, a review of mental health policy, and outlining her personal regulation said labour did not have a monopoly on compassion. the agenda ilaid a monopoly on compassion. the agenda i laid out on day one as prime minister still holds. it burns inside mejust the minister still holds. it burns inside me just the same. at its core, it's about sweeping away in justice, the barriers that mean for some the british dream increasingly out of reach. about saying, what matters is not where you are from or who your parents are, the colour of yourskin, who your parents are, the colour of your skin, whether you are a man or a woman, rich or poor, from the inner city or an affluent suburb. how far you go in life should depend on you and your hard work. there was an interruption from a protest quickly escorted out. the prime minister, ready with a joke.|j quickly escorted out. the prime minister, ready with ajoke. i was about to talk about somebody i would like to give a p a0 52 and that is jeremy corbyn! like to give a p a0 52 and that is jeremy corbyn! plagued by a stink off she went on to talk about brexit. i believe it is in all our interests for the negotiations to succeed. i know some will worry in the event that they do not. it is oui’ the event that they do not. it is our responsibility as a government to prepare for every eventuality, and let me reassure everybody in this hall that is exactly what we are doing. this speech was a personal promise to help communities who feel left behind. there will be d raft who feel left behind. there will be draft legislation to cap energy prices and on housing an extra £2 billion on affordable homes to help fix what she called a broken market. getting government back into the business of building houses, a new generation of council houses to help fix our broken housing market. whether you are trying to buy your own home, renting privately and looking for more security, or have been waiting years on a council list, help is on the way. to finish, a rallying cry. pledged not to give up when things get tough and a plea to the party to ditch infighting and division and to shape up. betters fulfil our duty to our people. let us fulfil our duty to our people. let us fulfil our duty to the country. let us fulfil our duty to britain and let us renew the british dream. thank you. despite some unplanned moments, the reception for this speech was warm. the test is now whether she has the authority to make her vision and reality. let's speak to our assistant political editor norman smith. a couple of eye—catching announcements but this is not what the speech will be remembered for? no, it will be remembered more for the uncertainty about whether the prime minister would even be able to finish it. at times her voice seemed to be on the verge of going completely. the chancellor had to give her some throat lozenges and then we had the interruption from a prankster who was able to approach her mid—speech and give her a one and said boris asked me to give you this. in a funny sort of a way that rallied the conference hall behind her but it was not clear whether it was supportive or in sympathy, almost in pity. i suppose the real difficulty is some people will see mrs mae's determination to carry on despite all that, a sign of her resilience and determination. her guts, frankly. 0thers resilience and determination. her guts, frankly. others will see it as a metaphorfor guts, frankly. others will see it as a metaphor for her political fragility, her vulnerability, all of which said, there were big announcements. this decision to once again go down the road of an energy cap on fuel bills, something the government seems to have abandoned. also, a pledge to revitalise council housing with £2 billion more. mrs mae said it would be her mission to tackle the housing crisis. but politics is often about moments and that moment is often conveyed in an image, andi that moment is often conveyed in an image, and i think neil kinnock falling over on brighton beach, william hague with his baseball cap. the dangerfor mrs william hague with his baseball cap. the danger for mrs mae william hague with his baseball cap. the dangerfor mrs mae is william hague with his baseball cap. the danger for mrs mae is that becomes one of those moments, a symbol of mrs mae's very real loss of political voice, her inability to address the nation and with it, her loss of political authority —— mrs may. as norman was saying... one of the key parts of that speech by the prime minister — a plan for a major programme of council house building. in her address to the conservative conference in manchester, andy moore reports. mehdi and his family have been in their new home with the housing association for seven months. but they were looking for a roof over their heads for three years. every week we are looking, just maybe one or two houses and lots of people in the queue in front of us. the council said lots of people are waiting. they have no houses. actually it is nice to be doing some new houses because lots of people out there have no houses to live. many people homeless. in leicestershire, the first two people's houses are ready... harold macmillan was the last senior tory politician to spearhead a programme of public house—building. his task is housing minister was to deliver hundreds of thousands of new council homes every year. but in the 1980s, many of those same houses were sold off to their tenants under the premiership of mrs thatcher. the stock of public housing has been going down ever since. the housing charity shelter has welcomed today's announcement. we need some serious money behind this. we need policy change to support it and we also need to reza made to hold her nerve because not everybody is going to love this. —— we need to reza made to hold her nerve. research shows housing is an issue for the millions of people who cannot afford to buy their own homes. at the last general election there was a big swing to labour among private tenants who turned out to vote. this is a small development being built in leeds. theresa may says many more homes are needed. we have seen a big announcement from the prime minister and the chancellor about help to buy scheme and supporting that further, to help more first—time buyers onto the ladder. but there is a whole load of people who will not benefit from that and this today shows there is something for them as well. these will be homes next year for around a dozen families. the pace of construction will need to rise rapidly if mrs may's vision is to become a reality. and we will have more from the conservative party conference later in the programme. police in las vegas say they're no nearer to finding a motive for the attack on a concert on sunday which left 58 dead and hundreds injured. 0vernight the girlfriend of the gunman returned to the us. media reports say marilou danley, who was in the philippines at the time of the shootings, is being questioned by the fbi as a "person of interest". bodycam footage from officers who were among the first on the scene has been released. 0ur north america correspondent laura bicker reports from las vegas. go that way! get out of here, there's gunshots coming from over there. go that way. gun shots. amid the chaos and confusion, the officer keeps his instructions clear. this way, this way. go, go, go. that way, that way. he ushers others to safety as he runs towards a hail of bullets. everybody stay down, stay down. police desperately try to find out where the shots are coming from as the barrage of gunfire rains down on concert crowds for over nine minutes. the mandalay bay, it's coming out of the window. among those trying to stay alive was trainee paramedic caitlin rogers. first she ran to the medical tent to help. then she called her dad. i don't remember saying it, but supposedly i said, daddy, they're shooting us. the emergency crews already present were employed by caitlin's dad brian. now his staff and his daughter were being shot at and he had to help. he rushed to the scene. i cannot describe it as anything but carnage. yesterday... i don't think any hour went by that i was awake that i didn't cry. i've been doing this a long time and thought i'd seen everything. but i have to say, i'm one of the lucky dads. because there was 59 other people and then multiple people in the hospital that their lives are changed forever. and my heart goes out to all of them. all of them. because i do know i'm one of the lucky ones. i really do. it could have very well been her in a heartbeat. in such a tragic situation you see people come together. and if that's what we did on a day—to—day basis, our world would be different. this is just one of the weapons found in the room of the 32nd floor of the mandalay hotel which killer stephen paddock had used as a base. so far police have failed to find a motive for the massacre. bearing in mind that the investigation is dynamic, ongoing, continuing, i don't have a lot of answers for you yet. and clearly understanding that nobody wants answers to why more than the police and the victims‘ families. we have a responsibility to get it right and so that's why it's going to take time and that's why we're going to take that time. america is once again grieving the victims of another mass shooting. president donald trump will visit the city later today amid calls for stricter gun laws. he says now is not the time for that discussion. but others here ask if not now, then when? laura bicker, bbc news, las vegas. 0ur correspondent is in las vegas. as laura was saying president trump is due in ours. how tricky a visit could that be? it is a very tricky one for the president to navigate. he arrives primarily as consoled in chief, trying to heal a nation which is grieving over this latest gun massacre. but he will also need to heal a nation which is deeply divided when it comes to the issue of guns. in the wake of every mass shooting i have covered here in the united states, gun control advocates say now is the time to push for change. president trump 0sman predecessor barack change. president trump 0sman predecessor ba rack 0bama change. president trump 0sman predecessor barack 0bama tried very ha rd to predecessor barack 0bama tried very hard to bring in stricter regulations, something he failed to get congress to agree on. but as a candidate, donald trump said the a nswer candidate, donald trump said the answer would be to make it easier for people to have access to guns, so for people to have access to guns, so people could defend and protect themselves. certainly, that is a view that many people in the united states agree with. but in the last few days i have spoken to a number of people who voted for president trump, who were here in las vegas on holiday. many of them own guns themselves and they believe there are some areas where there could be some change. 0ne are some areas where there could be some change. one area is mental—health illnesses and access that people with mental health illnesses have two gun. that is one area that president trump actually reversed earlier this year. the big challenge for president trump is he says he is a realfriend to challenge for president trump is he says he is a real friend to the gun lobby. he has to back that with doing something. it's spain's biggest political crisis for a generation — and it's getting worse — with the leader of catalonia's devolved government saying his region will declare independence from spain in a matter of days. in his first interview since the disputed vote on sunday which saw violent scenes and protests, carles puigdemont said his government would "act at the end of this week or the beginning of next". but spain's king felipe has accused the vote's organisers of putting themselves "outside the law". 0ur europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports from barcelona. this is a country teetering on the brink. a constitutional crisis looming after 2 million here voted for independence. something spain simply won't countenance. last night the catalan regional prime minister who is leading the bid for separation told the bbc a formal declaration of independence will be made in the coming days. translation: is obvious that we're part of spain, but we can and we do have the right to create our own state. and there is a very clear popular desire, which i don't think anyone can argue with now, for us to decide our own future. that desire was in evidence yesterday, tens of thousands on the streets of barcelona and other cities in this autonomous part of spain. but not all taking part favour catalonia becoming independent, though. this was more a protest against the harsh tactics used by police trying to prevent sunday's referendum. and spain's national leaders absolutely dispute catalonia's right to independence, the spanish constitution does not allow it. spain's king addressed the nation last night, only the second time a monarch has done this in four decades. he blamed the catalan separatists for plunging spain into crisis. translation: those authorities in catalonia have disobeyed all democratic principles of the rule of law. and they have undermined the harmony within catalan society itself. unfortunately managing to divide it. and in madrid todayjust as across much of spain, that message, tough and uncompromising, towards catalonia, has widespread support. translation: it was very good, it is what we need. i think this kind of separatism is ridiculous in the 21st century. but for catalan's separatists the fact that king offered no olive branch simply poured fuel on the fire. meeting today, they said they want to target next week for their independence bid. and if catalans act it's certain that spain will respond to stop them so the question, can anything avert the crisis that is now unfolding? damian grammaticus, bbc news, barcelona. our top story this lunchtime. one of the most gruelling speeches of her career, as prime minister theresa may tries to unite her party at the conservative party conference. but she battled to deliver her keynote speech as she suffered coughing fits throughout. she made promises to build a new generation of council houses and impose a generation of council houses and imposea cap generation of council houses and impose a cap on the domestic energy market. coming up in sport. leicester city's appeal to register sporting lisbon's adrien silva has been rejected by fifa, after the paperwork for portugal midfielder‘s move was submitted ia seconds after the transfer deadline. health officials from around the world are meeting in france — to commit to preventing 90% of cholera deaths by 2030. the disease, spread through contaminated water, kills around 100,000 people every year. the pledge comes as yemen continues to fight one of the worst cholera outbreaks on record — more than three quarters of a million people have been infected this year — 2,000 of them have died. our global health correspondent tulip mazumdar reports. it's in these swamps in bangladesh where cholera first emerged 200 years ago. and now another major health crisis looms large as nearly half a million rohingya refugees gather en masse in cramped, squalid conditions. this is the perfect breeding ground for cholera. a waterborne disease which causes severe diarrhoea and can kill within hours if left untreated. after fleeing violence in myanmar, weak and tired refugees are forced to drink from the same water supply they go to the toilet in. in yemen, more than two years of civil war has left crucial infrastructure such as water treatment plants and sewage systems in ruins and that has led to one of the biggest cholera outbreaks on record. it's these massive outbreaks in emergency situations that tend to hit the headlines. but there are also repeated outbreaks which occur in the same areas every year. we are aiming to reduce the number of people that die from cholera worldwide by 90%. it's the first commitment of that kind that the world has ever made. and one of the key strategies to achieve that is to provide water, toilets, hygiene, you know washing your hands, to everybody. particular focusing on hotspots across africa and asia were cholera is particularly likely to break out. it's estimated there are almost 3 million cholera cases across a0 countries every year. but only a tiny percentage of those are actually reported. nations in africa account for the majority of cases, in ethiopia more than 275,000 people are estimated to have been infected. and 10,000 people to have died. in nigeria it is 220,000 people with over 8000 deaths. but india has the largest number by far with over 675,000 cases and more than 20,000 deaths. by targeting only those places in priority, we are going to achieve a great deal of control, not only of cholera itself but all the waterborne diseases. as refugees continue to stream into bangladesh, almost a million cholera vaccines are being sent to the border. but they will only protect people for a limited time. northern europe and the us managed to eliminate cholera 150 years ago. today's pledge aims to finally achieve that goal for some of the world's poorest people. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. amazon has been ordered to repay more than £220 million in back taxes after the eu said it had been given an unfair tax advantage in luxembourg. it's the latest big us company to be reined in by the eu competition regulator. our business correspondent theo leggett is here. it isa it is a lot of money. what is going on? it is part of the big clamp—down by the european commission on multinational companies it thinks her sweetheart deals with national governments that allow them to pay less tax. in this case amazon had set upa less tax. in this case amazon had set up a system where chandler ‘s profits from its main european business based in luxembourg into another company where they were shielded from taxable in theory these were royalty payments for things like using the amazon brand. the commission said that did not hold water and was just a lot of results structure to reduce its tax bill. but it was authorised by the luxembourg government and sober amazon perfectly legal for stops of the commission has decided it is an artificial subsidy, that other companies did not have that kind of deal and so luxembourg must go back to amazon to recover that money. thank you very much. an army fitness instructor has been accused of trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute. victoria cilliers almost died when both her main and reserve parachute failed to open, when she made a jump over salisbury plain. the prosecution also claims her husband emile cilliers, tried to kill her on another occasion by tampering with a gas fixture at their home. duncan kennedy is at winchester crown court. that is right, emile cilliers accused of twice trying to kill his wife victoria four. he tried to tamper with a gas fixture at their family home is the accusation and then he allegedly tried to tamper with her parachute on jump that she made over salisbury plain in 2015. on that occasion she jumped out of the plane at a000 feet and neither her main or reserve parachute open. and when she hit the ground she suffered multiple injuries. sergeant emile cilliers on the left works for the army. the prosecution say he is someone who tried to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute. leading to an accident that nearly killed her. the court heard emile cilliers and his wife victoria were experienced skydivers. victoria was a parachute instructor. but the prosecution say he wanted to leave her for another woman. they said that in april 2015 he encouraged victoria to take part in a skydive at this military base in wiltshire. but when she jumped out of the plane both her main parachute and reserve parachute failed to open. the court heard that she spiralled to the ground and suffered multiple injuries. it was later discovered that two pieces of equipment linking the harness to the parachute were missing. the prosecution say emile cilliers had deliberately tried to kill his wife. they also say that just one week earlier he had made another attempt on her life by tampering with a gas fixture at their family home. they say he was £20,000 in debt and believed he would inherit £120,000 in the event of victoria's death. this area is extremely popular with parachutists who come from all over the country to jump over salisbury plain. the prosecution said that emile cilliers deliberately tried to kill victoria here and that it was miraculous she did not die. he denies all the charges against him. thejury the jury know there will be about 80 quinces in this case which is expected to last between five and six weeks. and emile cilliers demise of the charges against him. —— denies. duncan kennedy, bbc news, a review into the gender pay gap across the bbc has found that there are not enough women in seniorjobs — and the gap isjust over 9%. female bbc presenters have demanded changes before the end of the year. the director—general sir tony hall has pledged to close the pay gap within three years. back now to the conservative party conference. one of the item's in the prime minister's address was a proposed price cap on the domestic energy market. our personal finance correspondent simon gompertz is here. what are the implications of this? another significant change of direction on energy prices. in the election campaign that we had theresa may promised that 70 million customers on standard variable rates for gas and electricity would benefit from an energy price cap saving them up to £100 per yearfor each household. then she backtracked on that after the election, leaving thejob to the on that after the election, leaving the job to the energy regulator who came up with a more limited proposal for a came up with a more limited proposal fora cap came up with a more limited proposal for a cap which would benefit around 2 million of the least well off. so now we see something which looks like a return to the pre—election plan. she said energy companies were punishing loyal customers, talking about elderly people, those on lower incomes and now she will bring in a d raft incomes and now she will bring in a draft bill next week for a full energy price cap and end the rip—off prices once and for all. so what should we expect, well the bill could be quite short, it may not be that the price cap would come in for many months or until next year even. thenin many months or until next year even. then in the interim perhaps we would still have the regulator coming up with some measures to help customers in the meantime. but there has been an immediate effect for energy companies, the biggest one centrica has seen its share price drop more than 6%. the stephen crabb possibility of much lower profits. simon, thank you. —— obviously with the possibility. our assistant political editor norman smith is in manchester. it is perhaps the style of speech rather than the substance that many papers will be concentrating on tomorrow? well her aides said the speech worked well, michael gove said it was theresa may at the top of her game but i'm only assuming that they were shell—shocked because i think most people in the hall or at home for that. you really did not know if the prime minister was going to be able to finish it because of her failing to be able to finish it because of herfailing voice to be able to finish it because of her failing voice and at the end as she left the stage and was cast by her husband philip she looked to me as if she was close to tears with that at what had happened. downing street said that she has a conference called, she had done 20, 30 interviews and speeches during the course of the conference and her voice simply had given out. on the second extraordinary incident, that protest by the prankster. i've never seen protest by the prankster. i've never seen such a significant security lapse at a conference before. where the protester was able to get right up the protester was able to get right up in the prime minister was not face for 20, 30 seconds and then was ushered out. not by the prime minister and her security detail but the conference security here and there will be some very hard questions asked about how on earth that could have happened. the prankster we understand has been arrested for a bridge of the piece, all of which has completely sidelined the big policy announcements and matt and particular in terms of the energy cap, it seems the government is going to move very quickly on that. and they will introduce draft legislation next week to look at