welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is martin sta nford. the globe. my name is martin stanford. our top stories: call the roll. the senatejudiciary committee votes to approve brett kavanaugh — but one republican breaks ranks and insists on a delay. this country is being ripped apart, here, and we have two make sure that we do too diligence. -- due. 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. the drama surrounding president trump's nominee

for the supreme court has ratcheted up still further tonight. president 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 has the latest. 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 into power! republican senator jeff flake, the key swing vote on the committee, had just announced he backed judge kavanaugh. these women weren't impressed.

do you think that he's telling the truth? do you think that he's telling the truth to the country? and 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 where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened 7 you're asking about a blackout...| 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. yeah, nor do i. brett kava naugh's performance had reassured, and with senator flake on—board,

a vote was called for 1:30 today to approve 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? could we have a description? what are we voting on? no—one seemed quite sure what they were voting for. the committee approved brett kava naugh's nomination but with the request that the full senate order a re—opening of the fbi background check into mr 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'm gonna let the senate handle that. they'll make their decisions and they've been doing a good job and very professional. back in congress, allies were offering to explain. somebody's gotta explain this to 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 weeps in mourning. it's been a painful week for a bitterly disunited states. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. in washington, watching proceedings, was the bbc‘s chris buckler, whojoins me now. can any real investigative work done injusta can any real investigative work done injust a week? can any real investigative work done in just a week? that is a good question. some former fbi agents

would say no, particularly when you are talking about are those that may oi’ are talking about are those that may or may not have happened some 36 yea rs or may not have happened some 36 years ago. it is also interesting just to look at the terms of reference of the investigation. the white house has said it must be completed in less than seven days. and that it will be very limited in scope. he can only look at what it calls current credible allegations against brett kavanaugh. that is deliberate. they tried to make this a quick process. they feel they have had too many delays. donald trump is made clear his frustration. on twitter he has been reflecting this is now the seventh at the eight investigation into brett kavanaugh. they want to try to get him into the supreme court as early as possible. but of course they still need to keep their senators on board. and in the case of jeff keep their senators on board. and in the case ofjeff flake, he clearly had concerns. he might be a concern finally comes to the floor of the senate. there are a couple of other names that might get vote against

the nomination from the republican side. indeed. immediately after the hearing, there was a meeting of four senators, three republican, one democrat, who are seen as potential swing voters it is. there are 51 out of 100 robbie deans senators. so they have a very slight charity. but they have a very slight charity. but they need to try to keep all on—board. and that is pretty much all of the senators on board, if they want to go through to the confirmation process. although this is limited to one week, if anything, the last few days have shown a week and bea the last few days have shown a week and be a long time in washington, and be a long time in washington, and that is the concern for the white house generally. they want to try to move ahead with this process as quickly as possible, because they are aware that they don't know what will come up or what will be set in the week ahead. chris buckler live in washington, thank you. around 50 million facebook users have had their accounts hacked in the latest security breach to hit the social media network.

the company says hackers had full access to the accounts and were also able to access any third—party account that used facebook asa login. ceo mark zuckerberg was among the users affected — he says the accounts are now secure but that it's too early to know what data was accessed, how it was used and indeed, who was behind the attack. our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones reports. voiceover: we didn't come here for click bait, spam, fake news and data misuse. it's a business trying to regain the trust of its users after a major privacy scandal so the last thing facebook needed was a security flaw which allowed 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 and it allowed the hackers to steal the access tokens, the digital keys, that keep you logged in to the app. that meant the hackers could have access to anything they wanted to do with your facebook profile.

as precaution, facebook has logged out the people who might be affected. i seem to be one of them. on a conference call with journalists, facebook‘s boss mark zuckerberg admitted how serious the incident was and said the network was under constant attack. it's an arms race and we're continuing to improve our defences and i think that this also underscores that there are just constant attacks from 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 users once more. the thought of an attacker being able to get in and take control of my account is i think potentially very worrying and rather alarming. people will be thinking again about whether they want to stay with facebook. that said, with cambridge analytica, even though people were talking about deleting facebook, it turned out that many didn't.

facebook says there's no need for users to change passwords and it has fixed the flaw. but it now faces investigation by european data regulators with the power to impose huge fines. rory cellen—jones, bbc news. josh consteen is the editor at large of tech crunch, we can speak to him in san francisco. let's just ask you if we made about the other companies that facebook have slowed up in recent years. is my have slowed up in recent years. is p have slowed up in recent years. is my whatsapp account, my instagram account, is this all exposed to the same hack, do you think? thankfully your whatsapp account is safe. but instagram accounts and oculus accou nts instagram accounts and oculus accounts will need to be disconnected and reconnected. so a few you are used to sharing your instagram story to baseball, blatter said that up again. and facebook

have many great virtue of your facebook id to access all sorts of websites. airbnb is one example. what do you think airbnb users should do? we're not sure how the hackers used these account tokens. but you're right, they could have used them to access any connected services that use facebook for a login, like airbnb or spotify. if you use one of those accounts, it might be worth going in and making sure nothing has been change. but keep your eye on the news and see if you will have to disconnect and reconnect those accounts as well. you will have to disconnect and reconnect those accounts as wellm is extremely that in an organisation that has grown so fast and has a lot of engineering effort and coding effort on board that basically a bit of sloppy code was written just a few months ago that allowed this hack, this accessibility, to occur. you could think of it as facebook and so fast is to become a country with borders on all sides. so it is really fighting a war on all flights

right now. it has become so big that with all its engineering staff, it is difficult to lock up every possible entry point. —— fronts. you are dealing with hackers that are highly motivated, not just are dealing with hackers that are highly motivated, notjust for financial benefit, but also those who have an ideological bone to pick with the company, whether they want to interfere with elections or potentially badmouth or sully the brand of the massive social network. the focus is coming onto legislators. i see some legislators really expressing real anger to note that this is sloppy practice and they want to change the legislation under which facebook will operate. exactly. senators like mark warner in the united states are calling for c0 ng ress in the united states are calling for congress to enact new laws they could be similar to gdp are in the european union. specifically they wa nt to european union. specifically they want to trek and data portability and interoperability laws. —— gdpr. that would mean you could take your facebook personal information and move it to another service and sign

up move it to another service and sign up theirand move it to another service and sign up their and hopefully this threat that users could actually go over to a competitor more easily would compel facebook to treat its users batter and take their security more seriously. the gdpr is famous because it is held under the threat of huge fines if any kind of breach his proven. using the american legislators might use of external?” do think that the reckons will come closer to a top privacy law similar to gdpr. the problem really is that these companies as much money that these companies as much money that these are really just these companies as much money that these are reallyjust estevan to them. when the fine of 122 million dollars came down, that was something facebook makes it a matter of hours. it was not fazed by it. we need tougher laws and aspires to deter this sort of sloppy security work. thank you very much for joining us. 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 capital, jakarta. mobile phone footage shows that terrifying moment that up to three metre high waves hit the coastal area in the city of palu. the footage shows the water sweeping into houses closest to the shore. otherfootage from mobile phones taken on ships out to sea show the waves hitting the port area, where people are praying and screaming, as you can hear in the footage. officials have confirmed that it tsunami has hit the area, but exact casualty figures are still unclear. telecommunications to the region have 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. the quake happened around 5pm 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 injuly and august which killed over 500 people.

what has happened today in palu is still to become clear. rebecca henschke, bbc news, jakarta. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: worried french bakers fight to protect the humble baguette. 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 45 years of division, germany is one. in berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europe's biggest and richest nation. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: 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. let's return to our top story now. president trump has ordered an fbi investigation into the allegations of sexual assault made against supreme court nominee brett kava naugh following thursday's supreme court hearing. we can now speak to andra gillespie, professor of political science at emory university. so, one week for the fbi to uncover. . . so, one week for the fbi to uncover... well, what can they uncover... well, what can they uncover injust uncover... well, what can they uncover in just one week? they are just going to interview more people and compile a list of facts. there probably will not make any conclusions one way or the other. but this sort of stanza is a chance to do due diligence. —— stands. if we think back to the anita hill and clarence thomas debates of 1991,

that investigation took only 80 days. so they actually have more time to conduct an investigation 110w. “— time to conduct an investigation now. —— took a few days. time to conduct an investigation now. -- took a few days. do you think the episode so far, pettitt early in the visceral debate in that committee room yesterday, really has the potential to affect the way women vote in the mid—term elections? —— particularly. women vote in the mid—term elections? -- particularly. there has always historically been a gender gap with women voting more democratic. lots of that has to do with race, because women of colour are more likely to be democratic. but there are already women who are already riled up to vote for cap democratic candidates because of the events of the last two years and because of the me too movement. so it comes a question of whether or not we can detect an additional bump above and over the additional bump we expected to see this year, because of the issues that have been raised by me too, because of the increase in the number of women candidates running for office, particularly democratic women as well. so i think a lot of these

opinions were already set and it is just a question of whether or not more people are persuaded by the events of yesterday. the house is largely expected to go to democratic control, the senate is a tight race. this might change it, i suppose? before these hearings yesterday there were already more races that we re there were already more races that were being cast as tossup races. the reason it was hard to predict democratic turnover in the senate was because more democratic senators we re was because more democratic senators were up for real action and the democratic senators that were upward and republican states. —— re—election. so even before the kavanaugh re—election. so even before the kava naugh hearings they re—election. so even before the kavanaugh hearings they were states that were starting to look more competitive, so it becomes a question of whether or not those races question of whether or not those ra ces a re question of whether or not those races are looking even more competitive as a result of those hearings. what we can see, and this has not totally been shown yet, but there have been a number of democratic senators in republican states who may have been pressured to try to vote for kavanaugh before yesterday's hearings, who have

become comfortable in saying that they are not actually going to use —— going to vote for him. they are not actually going to use -- going to vote for him. does senator flake become some kind of hero to the left as a result of all of this? i think he becomes a hero to be left if he eventually votes no. he basically voted for a process in making this comp to vote him out of committee, but to delay the hearing for a week. —— compromise. if he turns around and votes no he probably will not become a hero to be left. but this was definitely an important step in the process. a lot of the attention will likely focus on the two moderate women senators, lisa murkowski of alaska and susan collins of maine. they are also calling for a deeper investigation. susan collins in particular was upset by some of the things president trump said about christine blasey ford. so it comes a question of whether or not they will be swayed about what they heard yesterday, or what comes out of an el yesterday, or what comes out of an ei investigation. yesterday, or what comes out of an el investigation. thank you very much. —— fbi. let's get some of the day's other

news. a federaljudge in the us has cleared the way for a lawsuit which accuses president trump of violating the us constitution to go ahead. the case, brought a 200 congressional democrats, says the president is breaking the law by continuing to accept foreign payments to his hotels and businesses while he is in office. reports from gaza say israeli soldiers have shot and killed several palestinians, and injured hundreds of moore, in detention at the territory‘s border. sioux boys are among the dead, one aged 12, the other 1a. —— two boys. for months, palestinians have been protesting every friday along the territory‘s andrey, demanding to be allowed to return to ancestral homes which are now in israel. human rights lawyer amal clooney has called on the authorities in the mr to pardon and release two reuters journalist who have been imprisoned there. —— authorities in myanmar.

they were sentenced to seven years of ha rd they were sentenced to seven years of hard labour earlier this month for violating the official secrets act as they investigated a massacre by security forces. 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. and this was before a ball was even struck. a morning where nerves can get the better of the world's best — where, more specifically, it got the better of europe's. if thorbjorn olesen‘s tee shot set the tone, it all went swimmingly for a friend across the pond. even when they did not find the green, it proved no obstacle for the rookie tony finau. when europe did find the short stuff and even the hole... oh my goodness, oh my...

..the points slipped away. the us won the opening three matches, and in full swing. that was until open champion 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. ian poulter for some epitomises the ryder cup for many. picked for his putting, he picked up europe and dragged them back into the contest. this was a french renaissance — a scoreboard painted blue. you are alex noren and sergio garcia crashed phil mickelson and bryson dechambeau. justin rose and henrik stenson doing what they often do at the ryder cup. with an unprecedented afternoon whitewash on the cards, francesco molinari and tommy fleetwood took downjordan spieth and justin thomas. well played indeed to europe. two points ahead. so a day that started with very little promise ended with europe orchestrating a comeback befitting of this monumental occasion.

ben croucher, bbc news. let's stay in france now, because there's an important campaign to protect part of the nation's culture. for years the country's baking industry has tried to fight off he growing incursion of foreign invaders, like the hamburger. now they are taking their fight to a whole new level, as the bbc‘s tim allman reports. the abandoned city of machu picchu, the glorious canals of venice, the natural splendour of yosemite national park. these all have their place on unesco's list of world heritage sites. ancient buildings, areas of natural beauty, an attempt to protect cultural artefacts. so what about adding

a baguette to the list? well, that is the plan for france's national confederation of bakeries and patisseries. they are worried the french stick is becoming an endangered species. translation: we will be reassured, because we are afraid that as more and more bakeries close, more and more industrial producers sell bread and take the place of bakers. so if we continue like this there will be no more bakeries left in france, even though they are world —famous. for many, the baguette is a quintessential part of french life. and other foodstuffs like pizza and coffee have already been added to the list. translation: i think it's a very good idea. i think there is nothing more french than the baguette, and having travelled a bit i have seen other countries try to reproduce it, but nobody makes it quite like france. the process is not quick but president macron has already given his backing. so perhaps one day the baguette will be protected. french culture reaffirmed,

a solution that hits the right note. and now, if you've ever wondered what it might look like when a dozen giant panda cubs get together, then take a look at this. these twelve little bears were all bred as part of a programme at the chengdu centre, in sichuan province. in all, 13 pandas have been born there this year. the other one is currently at a zoo injapan. it's the first time this group of pandas has met the public. the verdict of one tourist, they‘ re really cute, but they don't move around much! thank you for watching. you can reach me on twitter. that's the way the world is so far today. good morning.

friday felt more like autumn because we had cool air coming from the north. not surprisingly the highest temperature was on the south coast. still 19 degrees — pretty good. over the weekend, high pressure closer by, so while there will be some showers around, for the most part dry with sunshine at times. it will probably turn cooler as the weekend goes on. pretty cold at the moment underneath that area of high pressure would be clearer skies. more atlantic winds across the northern half of the uk and a weak weather front as well. that is where the we have this band of cloud and patchy rain. ahead of it one or two showers for scotland and northern ireland. more cloud and quite a strong westerly wind. england and wales, winds lighter. a lot more sunshine. highs of about 18 degrees and it should feel quite pleasant as well. not quite as warm for scotland and northern ireland, with the rain coming in to scotland in the evening. as it moves southwards, though, the rain peters out again. more a band of cloud 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 chillier by day, mind you, because more cloud is moving southwards. behind it sunshine and some showers blown in on a brisk north to north—westerly wind.

the bulk of the showers will be in the northern half of scotland. but temperatures will be lower across the board. only around 12 or 13 degrees in scotland and ireland. 111—15 in the south. that chilly north to north—westerly airflow is with us for the start of the new month. but around the top of this area of high pressure, the wind will change direction across scotland and northern ireland, replacing a chilly northerly with a more atlantic westerly, bringing in rain to the north—west later. sunshine for england and wales — 1a degrees at best. showers possible to the north sea coasts. this band of rain in the north is initially quite heavy around that weather front there. but it will topple southwards and then again it is a familiar story. everything just weakens. the rain tends die out and there won't be much of it let

on tuesday for england and wales. but more cloud around. a bit more sunshine for scotland and perhaps northern ireland. a different feel to 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 higher temperatures by day, higher temperatures by night, but but probably not as much sunshine. 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 30 people dead. the authorities say they are having difficulty contacting some urban areas closest to the earthquake's epicentre. hundreds of headteachers swapped the classroom for downing street on friday to demand more money for schools in england.