hello. this is bbc world news. i'm martin standford. 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. 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. police in denmark have carried out a

huge manhunt. the operation caused major disruption to the public with the closure of two key bridges. it was one of the most visible manhunts in denmark for decades. armed police on the streets, military brought in to support them. security checks led to support them. security checks led to gridlock as officers searched for a black swedish registered volvo with three people inside, suspected by police of being involved in serious crimes. unconfirmed reports by local media said the investigation was linked to a kidnapping. translation: during the day, we have been carrying out a major police operation around the entire country.

we needed to make sure we could contain the vehicle by controlling the bridges, tunnels, ferries and trains. the operation saw large parts of denmark's transport system paralysed with the eastern island containing the capital, cut off for several miles. —— several hours. highways soon resembled car parks. extending more than 20 kilometres on some routes. this bridge connecting denmark to sweden was one of several closed in both directions. with international ferry links also affected, many travellers appeared confused by the disruption. translation: we have a ferry to catch to sweden but the officials told us we will have to wait for an hour or so told us we will have to wait for an hourorso and told us we will have to wait for an hour or so and see. translation: we tried to keep up—to—date with what has happened. we are as curious as the rest of denmark. we have been following updates and checking webcam is to

see if traffic is moving. so far, nothing has moved. officers believe they have now located the vehicle in question but refused to be drawn on the whereabouts of the suspects. all routes have now reopened but the full outcome of the manhunt is less clear. a coroner has criticised pret a manger for inadequate allergy labelling and for not taking allergy monitoring seriously. it follows the death of 15—year—old natasha ednan—laperouse. she suffered a fatal allergic reaction and went into cardiac arrest on a flight after buying a sandwich from pret a manger two years ago. her family said food labelling laws "played russian roulette" with their daughter's life. sarah campbell has more. best friends, looking forward to a summer holiday. by the time this was filmed, around take—off, the sesame seeds natasha had unwittingly eaten were already starting to cause

an allergic reaction, from which she would never recover. in the two years since natasha died, herfamily — mother tanya, brother alex and father nadim — have been waiting to understand why they lost their daughter and sister. they've been at the inquest every day and today, heard the corner‘s conclusions. our beloved daughter died in a tragedy that should never have happened, and we believe that this inquest has shown that she died because of inadequate food—labelling laws. it feels to us that if pret a manger were following the law, then the law was playing russian roulette with our daughter's life. natasha had checked the baguette packet for specific allergy information, as had herfather. there was none. reassured by this, said the coroner, natasha ate the sandwich. branches of pret a manger prepare and package theirfood on—site. the current regulations make no distinction between a large chain like this and a small sandwich shop.

customers should be made aware that allergens like eggs, sesame, and peanuts may be present. but that doesn't have to be written on the individual item. in 2016, pret‘s policy was to place warning stickers on tills and on the fridges. the coroner said they were difficult to see. the environment secretary michael gove said today the government is currently reviewing food labelling. in—store warnings in pret a manger are now much more visible. the coroner also wants the company to improve how it responds to allergy concerns in light of natasha's death. we've listened to everything the coroner and natasha's family have said this week. we will learn from it. all of us at pret want meaningful change to come from this tragedy. we will ensure that it does.

this case has struck a chord with many of those who live with serious allergies. two years ago, amelia ended up in a&e after eating a chicken caesar sandwich from pret which she didn't realise contained sesame. the company has apologised to her. it does seem that they really do need to make a change. if they are as serious as they are, to prevent incidents like this happening again, like natasha and me, and i was fortunate enough to live, i would say this very firmly — we will not be the last if you don't make a change. as well as food labelling, the coroner expressed concern about the effectiveness of auto adrenaline injectors. two epipens were administered to natasha, and questions were raised during the inquest over the dose the epipen contains and the length of the device needle. natasha's family say they want this to be a watershed moment, that her death will lead to changes which will save many other lives. sarah campbell, bbc news.

in his first interview since resigning as foreign secretary, borisjohnson has repeatedly refused to rule out challenging the prime ministerfor the leadership of the conservative party. he demanded that theresa may ditch her current brexit plan and said he would fight for his alternative vision. a government source said mrjohnson‘s plan offers no answers. laura kuenssberg reports. he's out of government, but still wants to get his way. the problem with chequers is that it doesn't take back control, it relinquishes control, it forfeits control. why do you think the super canada deal, as you describe it, is doable, even if it's desirable? it's what all great countries want to do with the eu. they want to have a big free—trade deal. we were on the right path, and then, as you know,

we had the election, the irish issue gained in salience, i think, perhaps not quite deservedly, and we've been a bit blown off—course. that idea of a canada arrangement, a looser style deal with the eu, is not going to be accepted by that side without a rock—solid guarantee about the irish border. you signed up to that in december when you were foreign secretary, and now you're saying, "oh, that shouldn't be operable any more, it's unacceptable." i stayed in cabinet for as long as i could persuade myself that there was still a chance that we would go the right way and we would stick with the original vision that the prime minister had. but if this is such a good idea and it is viable, why does the british government have no intention of following this course? why does nobody in the eu say that this is doable, without significant movement on ireland? if you stick with chequers, i think what will happen

is that the electorate of this country will look at what we have in the end produced and they will say, "how on earth was that the outcome of the voting to leave?" it will do lasting damage to the credibility of this country around the world. people will say if the uk is a great power, a great economy, why are they so passive and so supine? downing street sources said his ideas just aren't workable, but for brexit‘s biggest cheerleader, it's notjust about how we exit the eu, but also what might one day see him into numberio. what are you willing to do to stop a deal based on the chequers proposals going ahead? my duty now is to make the case for freedom. what many of your colleagues will see you here, and what many of our viewers may see here, is that what you are doing is stirring up trouble for theresa may on the eve of her party conference. you're putting forward the same arguments you've put forward for some time now, and you're just throwing rocks, and what this is really about is your own ambition. i do care very deeply about this question.

i think that unless we change tact now, we will make a mistake that will be very hard to unpick. this argument that it's not the end of the world if we agree to chequers now and then sort it out later. that is complete pie in the sky. but the suspicion amongst many of your colleagues, many people in parliament and many people in the country is you're doing this you think you would do a betterjob in number ten. now, you could end that speculation here and now. i'm doing this, i resigning from the cabinet because i could not see how i could support an arrangement that i don't think is in this country's economic or political interest. do you rule out challenging her? myjob is to speak up for what i believe in and the vision that i've set out today. i believe in it very, very sincerely. you know, i'm going to keep going for as long as it takes. people will hear there, though, you not ruling out challenging her? i think the prime minister will...

as she said to us herself, and she said to the country, she's a remarkable person. she will go on for long as she feels it necessary. run, boris, run! always controversial, rarely quiet, this isn'tjust about what happens now for mrjohnson, but what happens next. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. the headlines 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. they're one of the most iconic rock bands of all time, led zeppelin, and one of their best—known songs, stairway to heaven, was for many

the soundtrack of the early 1970s. then, two years ago, they won a legal challenge from another group, who claimed the english rock stars had stolen the tune from one of their songs. but now led zeppelin face a new trial after a california appeals court decided the judgement in the previous case contained a series of technical errors concerning the song's opening riff. anyway, let's remnd ourselves of the led zeppelin tune. stairway to heaven still sounding pretty fresh, doesn't it? well, here's the song from the band, spirit, who say their song, called taurus, bears notjust a striking similarity to the led zep classic, but is a little too close for comfort. music plays

let's cross live to los angeles now and speak to professor robert fink, from university college los angeles' musicology department. in the versions we have played, they don't sound are similar, do they? well, no, there is a lot of other stuff going on in the taurus recording that you don't hear in the one that everyone is familiar with, but underneath it the claim is that there is a sort of structure which they both share. so if one was to compare the musical notation written ona compare the musical notation written on a stave, are they much more similar? well, this is a particular kind of copyright case that tends to tie people in knots because i don't

think any musicologist would deny that, written on the page, to your ear, there are similarities, there is the same basic chord progression, the same way of distributing the notes, which we call voicing, and even some of the same ways of playing the guitar. the big thing thatis playing the guitar. the big thing that is at issue in this case is originality. you know, does either of the songs distinguish itself from what you might call common point? and the two bands toured together, so and the two bands toured together, so the argument was heard, and voice in that original trial that, of course, one composer could have heard the other‘s work and they might not have plagiarised in the over that way but in a subconscious way. that is exactly right and that is technically called access in copyright law, and there is a general principle which this appeal

decision centres, that if you have a very strong argument about access... we know that the people were to gather. there is a very credible scenario or one gather. there is a very credible scenario oi’ one person gather. there is a very credible scenario or one person could have hurt another person's music. you can dial down the requirements for similarity when you are trying to show that somebody copied something else. and that's basically what is at stake in the appealjudgement. yeah, the appeal judges at stake in the appealjudgement. yeah, the appealjudges were taken by the argument that the original judge misdirected the jury. by the argument that the original judge misdirected thejury. what do you make of that now misdirection? well, i can see the point that is made. i mean, you are correct to characterise it as technical. effectively, what these appeal judges said was that the way the judges said was that the way the judge instructed the jury, judges said was that the way the judge instructed thejury, he foreclosed certain lines of argument that the musical logical witnesses we re that the musical logical witnesses were trying to make on the part of the plaintiff and so they couldn't

actually find, for the plaintiff, they were sort of forbidden from doing that, and that was a mistake. it didn't say that the jury was wrong, but just that they were not given the right instructions so that they could make a sort of fare decision. thank you very much for your time. ok. the first of two new aircraft carriers for britain's royal navy has completed 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's been mocked as the aircraft carrier without planes. but britain's most extensive warship has at last met its match. the f—35jet, the world's most advanced and costly warplane. now together for the first time, sailing in the atlantic ocean. it's eight years since a jet flew

off a british aircraft carrier. now the wait is over and the royal navy is back in the business flying fast jets from big decks. the f—35jet can hover like the old harrierjumpjet, but it's far more complex, with 10 million lines of computer code. each cost about £100 million — now landing on a £3 billion warship. it's global ambition, not affordability, that has been the driving force. this is the best, most capable warplane in the world, and it's now in the english military, on board a british warship, and it does not get better than this with this warship and this team. it's unbelievable. these two test aircraft are meant to be followed by many more. the ship was built to carry 36 jets.

but, in reality, she'll sail with fewer. britain's defence budget is struggling to match its ambitions. but the warning from the bridge is clear: fewer jets means less influence. it is a lot of money, but absolutely we must take security of our people and our home country and our obligations around the world seriously. you just cannot do defence on the cheap. what're we going to do, throw lemons at people? the government hopes this carrier and these jets will help project british power across the globe. but in truth it may struggle to keep those 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. 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... commentator: 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 tame tiger woods and patrick reed. time for a reshuffle. foursomes, which means alternate shots, which means this man. ian poulterfor some epitomises the ryder cup,

picked for his pressure play, 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, molinari and fleetwood repeated their morning artistry to take downjordan spieth and justin thomas. commentator: 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. the weather now with darren bett. hello, good morning. friday felt more like autumn because we had cooler air coming from the north, not surprisingly, the highest temperature was on the south coast, here in hampshire. still 19 degrees, pretty good. over the weekend, we've got high

pressure close enough 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, though, underneath that area of high pressure would be clearer skies. we've got more atlantic winds across the northern half of the uk and a weak weather front as well. that's where the we have this band of cloud and patchy rain. ahead of it, maybe one or two showers for scotland and northern ireland. more cloud and quite a strong westerly wind, too. england and wales, the winds are lighter as you head further south. there will be a lot of sunshine. highs of about 18 degrees and it should feel quite pleasant as well. not quite as warm for scotland and northern ireland. we will see the rain coming in to scotland in the evening, perhaps into northern ireland. as it moves southwards, though, the rain peters out again. more a band of cloud heading down into england and wales. and because we have more cloud debris overnight, if you like, it won't be as cold, saturday night into sunday morning. it will feel chillier by day, mind you, because we've got more

cloud is moving southwards. behind it, some sunshine and some showers blown in on a brisk north to north—westerly wind. the bulk of the showers i think will be in the northern half of scotland. but temperatures are going to be lower across the board. only around 12 or 13 degrees in scotland and ireland. 14—16 in the south. that chilly north to north—westerly airflow is with us for the start of the new month. but then, around the top of this area of high pressure, we're going to change the wind direction across scotland and northern ireland, replacing a chilly northerly with more of an atlantic westerly, bringing some rain to the north—west later. sunshine for england and wales, still not very warm, 14 degrees at best. the odd showers possible towards those north sea coasts. this band of rain in the north is initially quite heavy around weather front there. but it will topple southwards and then again it is a familiar story. everything just weakens. the rain just tends die out and there won't be much of it left on tuesday for england and wales. but there will be much more cloud around. we'll get a bit more sunshine for scotland and perhaps northern ireland.

so a different feel to weather probably on tuesday, those temperatures beginning to risejust 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 five people dead. the authorities say they are having difficulty contacting some urban areas closest to the earthquake's epicentre. now on bbc news, shortly, it'll be time for newswatch. but before that, here's click.