09/10/2016 BBC Weekend News

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, prepare for possibly the most

acrimonious Presidential debate in television history.

The candidates face off, amid lurid allegations from both camps,

Mr Trump says he'll be fight back, despite senior Republicans

urging him to quit, over past lewd and sexist comments.

Saudi Arabia says it will investigate the airstrike

on a funeral ceremony in Yemen, that killed more than 140 people.

Scientists says it's a potential "game changer" in cancer treatment,

And, a bad start for Lewis Hamilton in Japan badly hits his hopes

In the race for the White House, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

are making final preparations for a televised debate tonight,

amid lurid allegations from both campaigns, over the treatment

of women.Several senior members of the Republican Party,

have urged Mr Trump to stand down as candidate, after being heard

on tape making lewd remarks about women in 2005.

But he says he won't quit, and is threatening to raise

questions about Bill Clinton's sexual history in tonight's

Here's our Washington Correspondent, Laura Bicker.

Donald Trump's supporters are as defiant as the man himself.

As they gathered for this brief glimpse outside Trump Towers,

it was clear he is still the choice to be president.

As ever, Mr Trump used Twitter to reinforce that message.

The media and establishment want me out of the race a badly, he wrote.

I will never drop out of the race, I will never let my supporters down.

In a later Twitter storm, he tried to turn the tables

on the Clinton campaign and published this, a link

to an interview of a woman who made an historic rape allegation

Clinton's spokesman denied this 17 years ago and the accusation has

16 Republican senators have withdrawn support for the party's

handed it since the video was published full peers heard bragging

about kissing and groping women. You can do anything. Just hours before

the debate can his campaign team is trying to show some contrition. He

is ashamed of himself and embarrassed. He is the father of two

daughters and he has eight grandchildren. I think three of them

are girls. He wouldn't want them to hear that all see that and some of

them have now. Donald Trump has always proved to be a polarising

figure and his sexual boasts not putting off all his voters.

Everybody has flaws and things they do that are inappropriate. That

doesn't mean he can't be president. I compared JFK, Bill Clinton in the

past and they have loved women. Women are attracted to power.

It won't just be Donald Trump facing

Hillary Clinton might be asked about her e-mails or her husband's

past but never has the pressure being greater than on Donald Trump

and if he fails this test it could be a fatal

Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is in St Louis, where that

One wonders how low this debate could go tonight. If the Donald

Trump tweets are anything to go by, very low. I think it will be quite

shocking. I think there will be a huge amount of mud being slang. The

strategy from Donald Trump is, you might not think much of me but Bill

Clinton is even worse. It is very unclear from the polls were people

are that concerned about what happened with Bill Clinton. It's a

long time ago and he is not running for president. What we have also

seen today as senior Republicans running for the hills. They were due

to appear on morning shows and many have pulled out, not wanting to

support Donald Trump. Donald Trump has tweeted saying, they are being

called self-righteous hypocrites. What we have seen is a yawning chasm

between the Republican leadership and the grassroots, many of whom we

heard in that report saying they still support Donald Trump.

Increasingly, unless something dramatically changes, you will see

Donald Trump virtually campaigning as an independent from the rest of

the Republican party. This party is in turmoil.

And you can watch the debate between Donald Trump

and Hillary Clinton live overnight here on BBC One, and

The UN says more than 140 people have been killed,

in an air strike on a funeral ceremony in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia described the attack in the capital Sanaa,

as a "regrettable event" and said it would investigate A Saudi-led

coalition of Arab countries has been engaged in air strikes in Yemen

Dense black smoke billows from what was a funeral hole, packed with

civilians. -- Hall. Some survivors can be glimpsed trying to escape

from the wreckage. Then this. A second strike on the wounded. This

amateur video appears to show how the funeral of one man became the

slaughter of many. Here the aftermath of the carnage and the

rush to find the wounded and the dead. Minutes earlier they had been

mourning the father of a Huthi rebel official. We came here after the

first hit happened. While we are trying to help the survivors and get

the people out, the second hit happened. It created a massacre. The

Foreign Office said the images from the scene were shocking and Defence

Secretary Michael Fallon said, if civilians were deliberately

targeted, Britain would review its criteria for selling arms to Saudi

Arabia. The conflict in Yemen escalated in September 2014 when the

Huthi rebels, allied with Iran, seized control of the capital,

Sanaa. In March 2015 the Saudis began a campaign of air strikes

against the Huthis. 4000 civilians have been killed since then. Saudi

Arabia has promised to investigate the latest strike, having initially

denied involvement. It says its troops have clear

instructions not to bomb populated areas. The White House has begun an

immediate review of its support for the Saudi coalition, which has

already been cut back. The Government has ruled out forcing

British firms, to reveal how many Ministers say the data

will still be collected, but not made public.The proposal,

unveiled at the Conservative Party Conference, was criticised

by business groups. Our Political Correspondent Carole

Walker has the latest. Tackling immigration was a key theme

at the Home Secretary's beach to the party conference. She seized the

headlines with new measures, including a consultation on tighter

rules for companies who recruit from abroad. I want us to look again at

whether our immigration system provides the right incentives for

businesses to invest in British workers. The briefing said the

consultation would consider the impact on the local labour force of

their foreign recruitment and require employers to be clear about

the proportion of their workforce which is international. This

morning, ministers denied they had been naming and shaming businesses.

We're not going to ask companies to list, the name or identify foreign

workers. The position is that companies already have, when in

gauge some are from outside the European Union, they already have to

go through what is called the resident labour market test and

advertise the position in Britain for 28 days and demonstrate there

has been no other British applicant. We are looking at whether that is

just box ticking. Government says there has been a misunderstanding a

U-turn. The Home Office says there was never any attempt to publish

this information. A brewing boss was one of those who had lined up to

criticise the Government and questioned why it had not explain

its plans soon, given the outcry at the original announcement. It is not

about a hard or soft Brexit, it is about whether this will be open or

closed. Saying we will have to name or lift foreign workers is sending

out the wrong signals to a country that has been built on being an open

economy. The Government is still committed to getting net immigration

down to the tens of thousands but their hasty rethink on foreign

workers underlined how difficult it is to get the policy right.

A new cancer treatment is being described as a potentially

revolutionary,after promising results in the treatment

Patients who took nivolumab, survived longer than those

And a separate study has found that combining the drug with another

immuno-therapy drug, shrank four out of ten kidney tumours.

Here's our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh.

Last year, Peter Waite from Hertfordshire was told he had

terminal kidney cancer, which had spread to his lungs.

He went on a trial and instead of chemotherapy received

a combination of two immunotherapy drugs,

The drugs shrank his tumours and he suffered few side-effects.

He's not cured, but feels very fortunate.

Nobody really knows what's in the future,

but I can't be any worse off, because I have got something now

Immunotherapy drugs work by unmasking cancer cells hiding

in the body and priming the immune system to destroy them.

Early data from a study of 94 patients with advanced kidney cancer

showed using immunotherapy drugs in combination significantly reduced

the size of tumours in 40% of patients, compared to 5%

But although promising, immunotherapy is not

There is no one single magic bullet cure that will work for every type

of cancer or for every person, so immunotherapy will work for some

patients and, unfortunately, will not work for other patients.

What we need is more research to help us figure out who are those

patients who will best benefit from it and should be given it,

but equally, who may not and what is the other alternative

In another trial of more than 350 patients with advanced head and neck

cancer, 56% treated with nivolumab were alive after one year, compared

The team at the Institute of Cancer Research,

and Royal Marsden Hospital, which led the trial,

said it was a potential game changer for this difficult to treat cancer.

With the day's sport, here's Olly Foster at the BBC Sport Centre.

Lewis Hamilton has slipped further behind in Formula One

The reigning champion finished third at the Japanese Grand Prix

as his teamate Nico Rosberg won the race to stretch

Even if Hamilton wins the remaining races this season it may not be

Lewis Hamilton could barely hide his disappointment that his title

appears to have slipped out of his hands. After victory in Japan, Nico

Rosberg only appears that a Japanese to finish second to take the crown

for the Hamilton's is slipped away at the start he has struggled to

make good getaways all season but would never have imagined he would

have won as bad as those as he dropped from second to eighth. The

soothing words appeared to helpful. He jumped two places during the

opening round of pit stops. In one breathtaking lap, he passed another

three castles and he got the best of Sebastian Vettel after his final pit

stop and pushed the limits to catch Max Verstappen for the second place

was beyond him and, by the looks of things, so is the title. Rosberg's

ninth win of the season got Mercedes the constructors championship. A

3-point lead over Hamilton is surely a knockout blow.

We didn't get the British double we had been

final but Andy Murray is the new China Open Champion.

He beat Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets for his 5th singles title

of the year and the 40th of his career.

He can still knock Novak Djokovic off the top of the world rankings

Konta's run to the final in Beijing has seen her reach the world top 10.

But she was out-classed by the third seed Agneska Radwanska and lost

series against England after victory in Dhaka.

They had set England 239 for victory and despite some big

shots from Adil Rashid and Jake Ball late on,

The deciding match is in Chittagong on Wednesday.

Wales are playing Georgia in a World Cup qualifier in Cardiff

Gareth Bale with his third goal of the campaign.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster.

116 children and 28 adults died when a mountain of colliery waste

collapsed, and the slurry engulfed the village school.

A special concert has been held in commemoration

at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff, and our correspondent

A Welsh song that has become part of the Aberfan story.

Myfanwy was sung by rescuers as they fought to find the children

Performed by opera star Bryn Terfel as part of a new choral work

116 children and 28 adults were killed when an avalanche

of coal waste crashed into classrooms and homes.

The concert included poetry and this reading from actor Michael Sheen.

One of the most poignant moments came when the names of those

Cantata Memoria for the children was composed by Sir Karl Jenkins,

who was a young music student when the tragedy happened.

Perhaps some will be upset, particularly by the early

part, where the names are intoned, for example.

But I'd like them to know that it's done with the utmost

From darkness, the work moves towards hope and survival.

Among those watching were bereaved parents and survivors,

including three teachers, who were in the school 50 years ago.

Once the names came up, that caught my throat.

That really upset us because we could see the faces.

Once the names came up, we could see the children's faces.

I thought the music was really, really wonderful.

Something that everybody will remember and they'll

And you can see that concert in full on S4C this evening at 7:30pm.

I'll be back with the late news at Ten, but now on BBC1 it's time