this is bbc news. i'm kasia madera. our top stories — a day of high drama in washington as president trump's supreme court nominee moves a step closer to confirmation. call the roll. . .. mrgraham. aye. the senatejudiciary committee votes to approve brett kavanaugh but one republican breaks ranks and insists on a delay. this country's being ripped apart here and we have got to make sure that we do due diligence. the fbi now has a week to investigate allegations of sexual assault before the full senate casts a final vote. facebook under fire as it reveals a security breach involving nearly 50 million accounts. the moment a tsunami strikes the coast of indonesia following an earthquake. at least five people are dead. the fightback in france. from 3—1 down, europe now lead the usa after the first day of the ryder cup. hello and welcome to bbc world news.

the drama surrounding president trump's nominee for the supreme court has ratcheted up still further. donald trump has ordered the fbi to investigate sexual assault allegations against brett kavanaugh, despite earlier saying he felt it was not the right thing to do. that came after a committee of us senators approved mr kavanaugh‘s nomination, but with the condition that the fbi look into the claims before the final vote in the senate can take place. our north america editor jon sopel reports. why not wait? it's just possible this confrontation in a lift in the senate building has altered the course of the supreme court nomination. you're telling me that my assault doesn't matter, that what happened to me doesn't matter!

and then you're going to let people who do these things... republican senator jeff flake, a key swing vote on the committee, had just announced he backed judge cavanagh. these women were not impressed. do you think that he's telling the truth? do you think that he is telling the truth to the country? what they said clearly left an impression after yesterday's visceral testimony. brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. this is what terrified me the most. i have never done this, to her or to anyone. what is the strongest memory you have? uproarious laughter between the two. and they're having fun at my expense. you're saying there's never been a case that where you drank so much you didn't remember what happened the night before? you are asking about a blackout... i don't know, have you?

could you answer the question, judge? yeah and i'm curious if you have. i have no drinking problem, judge. nor do i. brett kava nagh‘s performance had reassured, and with senator flake on—board, a call was approved for 1:30pm today to confirm his nomination. but something odd was unfolding. had senator flake gone flaky? the minutes ticked by. he wasn't in his seat. he'd been meeting democrats. and then he returned to throw a procedural hand grenade into the deliberations. this country's being ripped apart here and we've got to make sure that we do due diligence. i think this committee has done a good job, but i do think that we can have a short pause and make sure that the fbi can investigate. call the roll. wait just one second. can diane speak? what are we voting on? no—one seemed quite sure

what they were voting for. the committee approved brett kavanaugh‘s nomination, but with the request that the full senate order a re—opening of the fbi background check into judge kavanaugh. at the white house, the president, who had been meeting his chilean counterpart, didn't seem entirely sure what had just happened. well, i am going to let the senate handle that. they will make their decisions. they have been doing a very good job, very professional. back in congress, allies were offering to explain. somebody has to explain this to president trump, so i guess that'll be myjob. delay is what the republican leadership were desperate to avoid, but it looks as though delay is what they've got. just outside the capitol stands this monument. it depicts grief, holding her covered face against the shoulder of history and weeping in mourning. it has been a painful week for a bitterly disunited states. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. the bbc‘s chris buckler

explains the scope of the fbi investigation. this is not a criminal investigation. what is very clear is that the white house says it will be very limited in scope. first of all, it will only be into what they describe as the current credible allegations. secondly, it will be completed one week from now. that gives you an indication that the white house know they have to accept this in order that they ensure they have the votes inside the senate to push this forward. however, they do not want the delay and they want to deal with this as quickly as possible. of course, as i think we have proved in the last couple of weeks, one week is a very long time in washington. when we are talking

about the vote on the actual nomination itself, when can that possibly be? it the process could potentially begin as early as potentially begin as early as potentially next weekend. final vote, we could potentially see ten days from now. there are a lot of hoops to jump through at this stage. fundamentally, what we have seen here is a concern from at least one republican senator. that moment when he was confronted, a very dramatic moment, when he was confronted by protesters inside a lift in which he stood there with his head bowed, it had a clear effect on him. there are other senators as well who are seen as swing votes. up until today, certainly after yesterday's hearing, there was a feeling from republicans that they could push this through. over the next week, what they need to try to do is keep the senators on board. keep the votes ahead of this hearing. ultimately, ithink board. keep the votes ahead of this hearing. ultimately, i think what we have seen today and yesterday here

in washington is something that really gives you a sense that they are are a lot of very personal stories that are playing into a greater political situation and that is about america's divide. and nowhere more will you see that divide in congress itself. republicans and democrats do not agree on is awful lot of things and brett kava naugh‘s nomination agree on is awful lot of things and brett kavanaugh‘s nomination isjust one of them. facebook has said "almost 50 million" of its users were left exposed by a security flaw. the breach was discovered on tuesday and facebook says so far it's unclear who's behind the attack. facebook has told journalists that third—party accounts were also jeopardised and mark zuckerberg himself was among the users affected. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports. we didn't come here to click bait, spam, fake news and data misuse.

we didn't come here to click bait, spam, fake news and data misusem isa spam, fake news and data misusem is a company trying to regain the trust of its users after a privacy scandal so the last thing it needed was a security flaw to allow hackers to get access to 50 million accounts. the vulnerability was in a feature called "view as" which lets you see your profile as others see it. it allowed the hackers to steal the access tokens, the digital keys, that keep you logged in to the out. that meant the hackers could have access to anything they wanted to do with your facebook profile. as precaution, facebook has locked out the people who might be affected. i seem to be one of them. on a conference call with journalist, mark zuckerberg admitted how serious it was and said the network was under constant attack. we are continuing to improve our defences andi continuing to improve our defences and i think that this also underscores that there are these co nsta nt underscores that there are these constant attacks on people who are trying to take over accounts or steal information from people in our

community. in march, it emerged the political consultancy cambridge analytica had harvested data from millions of facebook accounts. now it has to reassure europe —— reassure users once more. the thought of an attack at being able to get in and attack my account is very worrying. people will be thinking again about whether they wa nt to thinking again about whether they want to stay with facebook. that said, even though people were talking about deleting facebook after cambridge analytica, it turned out many didn't. facebook said it is no reason for users to change passwords and they have now fixed the flaw. that after an investigation, it has the power to impose huge fines. our north america technology reporter dave lee has more on this story. one of the striking things about how facebook has been describing this bridge today has been the lack of information they have been offering.

—— breach. they have held a second conference and in that they said that even third—party sites where you can use facebook to login could also be affected by this breach. we might see this get worse for facebook as a full extent of how damaging this breach might be becomes more clear. —— as the full extent. what has been standing out is how facebook have been responding to questions. they simply don't know very much at all about how much of a problem this might be. in terms of the people affected, it's not all facebook users, it is a certain type of user that uses a certain type of application on the website? there was a very complex scenario needed in order to be affected by this so thatis in order to be affected by this so that is why these books a 50 million of its more than 2 billion users are affected. it is important to stress that of those 50 million people, the

hackers have complete access to their account so they were essentially behaving as if it was their own accounts themselves. from there, of course, you could use someone's accountancy information about their friends or friends of their friends so the impact of this breach arguably goes more than that initial 50 million. when you add on top of that the possibility that these hackers were also able to login to third—party sites, posing as users that they had compromised, that goes even further again. historically, when facebook released information about these breaches, they typically begin with a number that ends up getting much higher than the first number they put out as an estimate about how big the problem is. there is many predicting this may be the same case again here. the full extent of this may be much greater than where we are today. those people that have been affected, their settings have been changed, what happens? what is the kind of scenario they will face? changed, what happens? what is the

kind of scenario they will face ?m you are one of the affected users, when you open the apple tried to login to facebook on a web browser, you will have been locked out. —— when you are trying to login. at the top of the newsfeed and i know this because i was affected, it explains exactly how the breach happened and what it might mean. that is how they are notifying people. they are also logging out an additional a0 million people on top of the 50 million as a precaution although the second group of people, facebook say, they don't think have been affected. they are just making sure by logging them out again and if people login it should solve the near—term problem. they are also saying you do not have to use the password. —— change their password. facebook shares did fall. shares in the us electric car maker

tesla have fallen by almost ia% in a day after american financial regulators said they were charging its boss, elon musk, with fraud. he's accused of deliberately misleading investors in his company about plans to return it to private ownership. mr musk says the lawsuit is unjustified and tesla's directors say they have full confidence in him. in the last few hours he's tweeted on an apparently unrelated subject about tesla, saying he's sorry for dificulties in delivering the cars to consumers, due to the high volume required. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come: the human rights lawyer amal clooney on her latest case. they had documents planted on them. police were laying in wait to arrest them. the whole trial was a charade. she's working to win the freedom of two journalists jailed in myanmar who were reporting on the rohingya crisis. in all russia's turmoil, it has never come to this.

president yeltsin said the day would decide the nation's destiny. the nightmare that so many people had feared for so long is playing out its final act here. russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. it was his humility which produced affection from catholics throughout the world, but his departure is a tragedy for the catholic church. israel's right—winger, ariel sharon, visited the religious compound, and that started the trouble. he wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites — an idea that's unthinkable to palestinians. after a5 years of division, germany is one. in berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europe's biggest and richest nation. welcome. you are watching bbc news.

our main headline this hour: a senate committee has approved president trump's nominee for the supreme court — but a final confirmation vote has been delayed, while the fbi looks into allegations of sexual assault. facebook has revealed a security breach involving nearly 50 million accounts. the company says hackers exploited a vulnerability in its code to gain control over the accounts. an earthquake has triggered a tsunami which has struck a coastal city in indonesia. witnesses say the giant wave swept into the streets of palu, which is on the island of sulawesi. here's rebecca henschke in the indonesian capitaljakarta. mobile phone footage shows that terrifying moment that up to three metre high waves hit the coastal

area in the city of palu. the footy show ‘s the water sweeping into houses closer to the shore. —— the footage shows. other footage from ships out to sea show the way city the port area, where people praying and screaming, as you can hear in the footage. officials have confirmed that it tsunami has hit the area, but is a casualty figures are still unclear. telecommunications to the region has been cut off. they're sending in rescue teams to the area as we speak to get a clearer picture of what has taken place. to get a clearer picture of what has ta ken place. the to get a clearer picture of what has taken place. the earthquake happened around fight the local time and was 7.7 magnitude. a significant earthquake for indonesia. living in the ring of fire, a country that is no stranger to earthquakes, after suffering earthquakes in lombok in

july and august are killed over 500 people. what has happened today in palu is still to become clear. rebecca henschke, bbc news, jakarta. the human rights lawyer amal clooney is calling on authorities in myanmar to pardon and release two journalists who have been imprisoned there. wah lone and jaw soh oo were sentenced to seven years of hard labour earlier this month for violating the official secrets act, as they investigated a masscre by security forces. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet spoke to amal clooney, who's representing the two journalists. this case of two reuters journalists, wah lone and jaw soh oo, is widely seen as a test of democratic freedoms in myanmar, and a travesty of justice. democratic freedoms in myanmar, and a travesty ofjustice. it is a ma nifest a travesty ofjustice. it is a manifest interest. they were the victims of a setup, had documents played on them, and police were lying in wait to arrest them, and

the whole trial was a charade, basically. what really happened was that they were investigating and reporting a massacre of rohingya man. the officials found out about it and wanted to silence them, they rested them on the false pretext, and subjected them to a show trial. onsen su kyi has said the trial has nothing to do with freedom of expression, thejournalists broke the secrets act. we were shocked that she would defend this case when she has ordered spoken out about the need for free speech. she has actually been imprisoned in the prison where they now set, as a political prisoner, and when she won the political —— nobel peace prize, she supported this sort of action. she holds the key to their liberty. so we hope that she will now live up

to her own principles and actually release them and, in doing so, it said her country back on the path towards democracy and the rule of law. we tried to make the case today to add that aung san suu kyi's all, where she said if anyone believes there has been a miscarriage of justice, it they can explain why thatis justice, it they can explain why that is the case. there has been a push for other countries to become involved, including here in the united states. general assembly described as enemies. i think it is really disappointing that in united states, traditionally the staunch defender of freedom of speech, and now you have a president saying he is at war with the media. now you have a president saying he is at war with the medial now you have a president saying he is at war with the media. i can't think of a case of a political prisoner around the world which i have not reached out to the us and they have taken the lead on this. in this case, the state department and the white house have been an awful, but we need that kind of leadership

if we go to make headway and essentially it will always be convenient for authoritarian regimes to sons critics. three years ago, a mile journey was involved to sons critics. three years ago, a milejourney was involved in to sons critics. three years ago, a mile journey was involved in the trial of journalists jailed mile journey was involved in the trial ofjournalists jailed in cairo. —— amal clooney. trial ofjournalists jailed in cairo. -- amal clooney. a foot of a do not see then. we know from organisations that track is that the number of journalists in prison organisations that track is that the number ofjournalists in prison are — they have been. demonstrably it is not getting better. and we just have to keep fighting each case and hope we can effect positive change. human rights lawyer amal clooney there. the first of two new aircraft carriers for britain's royal navy has carried out its first tests involving jets flying from its deck. hms queen elizabeth went twice over budget — and the expense of buying the fighter jets could mean fewer of them will be on board

than originally planned. our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. it has been mocked as the aircraft carrier without planes. but britain's most extensive warship has at last met its match. the activity five jet, the world at last met its match. the activity fivejet, the world public at last met its match. the activity five jet, the world public most advanced and costly warplane. ——. now for the first time sailing in the atlantic ocean. it has been a hit since a jet flew off a british aircraft carrier. now the wait is over and we're back in the business flying fast jets from over and we're back in the business flying fastjets from big daks. the f-35 flying fastjets from big daks. the f—35jet flying fastjets from big daks. the f—35 jet can flying fastjets from big daks. the f—35jet can hover like the old harrierjet, but is more complex, with 10 million lines of computer

code. each cost about £100 million. now landing ona code. each cost about £100 million. now landing on a £3 billion warship. its global ambition not affordability. —— not affordability that has been the driving force. affordability. —— not affordability that has been the driving forcem isa that has been the driving forcem is a plane in english military on a british warship, and it does not get better than this. it is a believable. these two test aircraft are meant to be followed by many more. the ship was built to carry 36 jets. in reality, she will sail with fewer. britain's defence budget is struggling to match its ambitions. but the warning from the bridge is clear: fewer jets but the warning from the bridge is clear: fewerjets means less influence. it is a lot of money, but absolutely we must take security of our people in our home country and our people in our home country and our obligations around the world seriously. you cannot just our obligations around the world seriously. you cannotjust do defence on the cheap. what will we do? through lemmens that people? the government hopes this carrier and

these jets will help project british power across the globe. —— lemons. but they could struggle to keep the ambitions afloat. sport news and the european team had a strong fightback against america on the first day of golf's ryder cup. they finished the opening morning of the team event 3—1 behind — but won all four of the afternoon matches to end the day with a 5—3 lead. ben croucher reports. as monuments go, they seldom get grander than this. the ryder cup, in all its iconic majesty. justin rose and john rahm. this was before a ball was even struck. a morning where nurse can get the better of the world's best, where, more specifically, it got the better of europe. it all went swimmingly for a friend across the pond, even when they did not find the green proving no o bsta cle

they did not find the green proving no obstacle for the tony finau. when europe did find the sure start and even the whole. .. europe did find the sure start and even the whole... all my goodness, i... the point is that the way. the us won the opening three matches, and infull swing. us won the opening three matches, and in full swing. that was until francesco molinari and tommy fleetwood combined to contain tiger woods and patrick reed. time for a reshuffle. foursomes, which means alternate shots, which means this man. this meant epitomises the ryder cup for many. picked for his parting, he picked up europe and dragged back into the contest. this was a french renaissance. arabs known and sergio garcia, justin rose and henrik stenson doing what they do at the ryder cup. with an unprecedented afternoon whitewash on the cards, the artistry was repeated to see jordan spieth the cards, the artistry was repeated to seejordan spieth and justin

thomas taken down. two points ahead. so bruce davis started with very little promise ended with europe orchestrating a comeback befitting of this minor mental occasion. and crutcher, bbc news. excellent stuff. —— ben. if you have ever wondered what it looks like when a dozen pedicabs get together, wonder no longer. there. they are all bread in a centre in sichuan province. all 13 were born there. the other is in a zoo injapan. this is the first time the pandas met the public, and one tourist said they we re very public, and one tourist said they were very cute. that is an understatement. but they do move around much. who needs to move around much. who needs to move around when you are back to? much more on our website. i am on social media. from the knitting, good night.

—— from the end the team, good night. good morning. friday felt more like water because we had cool aircoming from more like water because we had cool air coming from the north. not surprising the highest average up was on the south coast. still 90 degrees and very good. over the weekend, a high pressure closer by. the most part dry with sunshine at times. it will probably turn cooler as the weekend goes on. critical of the moment underneath that area of high pressure would be clearer skies. more about it wins across the northern half of the uk and the weak weather front across the uk. that is where the band of cloud and patchy rain comes. a strong westerly wind. in western wales, wins lighter. heading south, sunshine. ice is about 18 degrees and it will feel quite pleasant as well. not quite as warm for scotland and northern ireland, with the rain coming in to

northern ireland in the evening. as a move southwards, the worrying because out again. a better cloud is heading down into england and wales. with more cloud debris if you like, it won't be as cold. saturday night into sunday morning. it will feel chilly by day, mind you, because more is moving southwards. behind it sunshine and showers blown in on a brisk north to north—westerly wind. the bulk of the shows will be in the northern harbour scotland. but averages will be lower across the board. only around 12 or 13 degrees. chilly north and north airflow to study month. this air of high pressure will change the director, replacing a chilly northerly with a more atlantic westerly, brings in cloud and ran to the north—west later. sunshine for england and wales: a0 degrees at best. showers possible to the north sea coasts. his band of rain in the north is

initially quite heavy around that weather front there. but it will move southwards and then again it is afamiliar move southwards and then again it is a familiar story. everything just wea ke ns. a familiar story. everything just weakens. the renters to die out and there would be much of it let on tuesday for england and wales. —— the rain tends to die out. a bit more sunshine for scotland and perhaps northern ireland. with the filter the weather on tuesday, temperatures will begin to rise a little bit, but there will be much more cloud. we are left with a cloudy westerly airflow as we move into tuesday and wednesday. that means tighter bridges by day, patented by night, but pulling up as much sunshine. —— but probably not as much sunshine. —— higher temperatures by day. —— higher temperatures by day. —— higher temperatures by day. —— higher temperatures by night. this is bbc news, the headlines — the judiciary committee in the us senate has approved brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination — but a vote of the full senate will be delayed for a week to allow for an fbi investigation.

president trump said the senate committee had to do what they thought was right and necessary. facebook is investigating a security issue affecting nearly 50 million accounts. it says hackers exploited a vulnerability in its code that allowed them to take over people's accounts. the company said that because it had onlyjust begun its investigations it did not yet know who was behind the attacks. a tsunami up to three—metres high has crashed into the coast on the indonesian island of sulawesi. it followed an earthquake measuring 7.5 that's left at least five people dead. the authorities say they are having difficulty contacting some urban areas closest to the earthquake's epicentre. now on bbc news, cameroon is fighting