welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. 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'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. police in denmark carry out the biggest manhunt in decades, leading to travel chaos across the country. 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 kavanaugh'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. laughs. 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. earlier i spoke to andra gillespie, associate professor of political science at emory universtiy. i asked her what she thought the fbi investigation could accomplish in a week.

well, they are just going to interview more people and compile a list of facts. they probably won't make any conclusions one way or the other. but this sort of stanza is a chance to do due diligence. and if we think back to the anita hill and clarence thomas debates in 1991, that investigation took only a few days. so they actually have more time to conduct an investigation now than they actually took in 1991. do you think the episode so far, particularly the visceral debate in that committee room yesterday, has really, has the potential to affect the way women vote in the mid—term elections? well, there has always historically been a gender gap with women voting more democratic. a lot 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 democratic candidates because of the events of the last

two years, because of the me too movement. so it becomes a question of whether we can detect an additional bump over and above the bump there —— the bump we expected to see this year because of the me too movement, because of the increase in female candidates running for office, particularly democratic women. so i think a lot of these opinions were already set and it is just of these opinions were already set and it isjust a question of of these opinions were already set and it is just a question of whether people are persuaded by the events of yesterday. the house is largely expected to go to democratic control. the senate is a tighter race but this mightjust change it, i suppose. well, before these hearings yesterday, there were already more races that were being cast as tossup races. the reason why it was hard to predict democratic turnover in the senate was because more democratic senators were up for real action, and be democratic senators that were up were in republican states. so even before the kava naugh republican states. so even before the kavanaugh hearings they were more states that were starting to

look more competitive. so it becomes a question of whether or not those races have become even more competitive as a result of those hearings. what we can see, and this has not totally been shown just yet, but there have been a number of democratic governors, senate —— senators, democratic governors, senate —— senators, excuse democratic governors, senate —— senators, excuse me, in republican states, who may have in pressured to vote for kava naugh states, who may have in pressured to vote for kavanaugh before yesterday's hearings who have now become comfortable in saying they are not actually going to vote for kavanaugh's are not actually going to vote for kava naugh's confirmation. are not actually going to vote for kavanaugh's confirmation. does senator flake become some kind of hero to be left as a result of all this? i think he becomes a hero to the left if he eventually votes no. he eventually voted for the process in making this compromise in delaying the hearing for a week. if he turns around and then votes no, he turns around and then votes no, he probably wouldn't become a hero to the left. but this was definitely an important step in favour of process. lots of the attention is likely going to focus on the two moderate women senators, lisa

matkowski 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 becomes a question about whether or not they will be swayed at all by what they heard yesterday or what comes out of the el investigation. -- fbi investigation. 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 withjournalists, 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. deepa seetharaman is the technology reporter for the wall streetjournal and she's reporting on this from san francisco. one of the striking things about how facebook has been describing this it started a little over a year ago.

last summer, july 2017, facebook introduced a feature that had a flaw in it. earlier this month, september 16, they discovered a whole arch of new accounts. some usual activity that tipped them off to something that tipped them off to something that might be wrong. on tuesday they confirmed something was wrong. they found they were 50 million accounts that were hacked, where attackers could log it in as those users. and they are still trying to figure out they are still trying to figure out the full scope of the attack, but tuesdayis the full scope of the attack, but tuesday is the first time in over a year where they have really understood what was happening. our initial understanding is that if you use your facebook id to login to other services, other apps or other websites, through a browser, you may have been affected, and all those apps and services may have been affected by this as well, right? absolutely. that is what is difficult with this scenario right

now. facebook has a number, 50 million, but it could... they are not finished with their analysis. the scope could widen considerably. security researchers point to this particular problem as a reason why, when you able to use your facebook credentials to login to really any website on the internets, you know, the hackers could have interacted with a lot of other types of information and a lot of other accou nts information and a lot of other accounts could have been a fact that by this. i am broadcasting from london today where we have this thing, the gdpr, that came in across europe where companies were forced to ta ke europe where companies were forced to take better care of our data or pay a massive financial penalty. do you think that kind of law might come in to the united states now? one of the laws being discussed here, and something that the tech companies themselves are pushing, is what they call gdpr lite. it is a version, somewhat modelled after

gdpr, it is not as stringent and some of the requirements do not exist in the us version, as proposed by the tech companies. and there seems to be some appetite upon the hill. i think it isjust seems to be some appetite upon the hill. i think it is just difficult to imagine, for tech companies and regulators right now, how long such a policy would take to actually come to fruition. it is actively being discussed right now, though. police in denmark have carried out a huge manhunt in the search for suspects involved in what they've described as serious criminal activity. the operation caused major disruption to the public, with the temporary closure of two key bridges, as well as train and ferry services. caroline rigby has more. 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 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 the trains. the operation saw large parts of denmark's transport system paralysed with the eastern island of zealand, containing the capital copenhagen, cut off for several hours. as the manhunt continued, highways soon resembled car parks. tailbacks extending for 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 and see. translation: we try to keep up—to—date with what has happened. we are as cui’ious as the rest of denmark. we have been following updates and checking webcams to see if traffic is moving. so far, nothing has moved. officers believe they have now located the vehicle in question but refuse to be drawn on the whereabouts of the suspects. all routes have now reopened but at present, the full outcome of the manhunt is rather less clear. caroline rigby, bbc news. 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 world 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. germany's president has delivered a blunt message to his turkish counterpart, telling him at a state banquet that the two countries can't return to everyday business. frank—walter steinmeier told president erdogan that he was worried about german citizens currently imprisoned in turkey along with large numbers of other opposition figures. mr erdogan's visit to germany has been controversial, with protests outside and inside the official events. bill hayton reports. it was not exactly all smiles.

president recep tayyip erdogan's visit is intended to normalise relations between germany and turkey, but there is clearly some way still to go. the two governments fell out following an attempted coup in turkey in 2016 and the arrests of thousands of president recep tayyip erdogan's opponents. one of his loudest critics, the former head of the german greens party has been vilified in the media. but even germany's head of state has some strong words. translation: as the president of this country, i am of course worried and nervous about german citizens imprisoned in turkey for political reasons. i'm also worried about journalists, union workers, it and intellectuals, still in prison. we

discuss individual cases this morning. i hope, mr president, that we are unable to return to everyday business without some action. earlier on friday, president recep tayyip erdogan had faced one of his other critics in a news conference. a photographerfrom other critics in a news conference. a photographer from an online newspaper called for press freedom. he was bundled out of the room. another turkish journalist supposed to attend the event decided not to after being named in a list of people whom turkey wants extradited. but there have also been demonstrations in support of president recep tayyip erdogan from others in germany's turkish community. translation: our hope is for the normalisation of ties between the eu and turkey. there were 6 million turks living outside of turkey. we wa nt turks living outside of turkey. we want ourfriendly turks living outside of turkey. we want our friendly neighbourly ties, which we have had for the past 50 yea rs, to which we have had for the past 50 years, to come back. we want relations to come back to life again. we want a policy between two

states with bilateral benefits and respect. turkey desperately wants european help for its troubled economy. and the two sides are anxious about the ongoing situation in syria. they may not like it, but they need to find a way to get along. bill hayton, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news, now. a federaljudge in the united states has cleared the way for a lawsuit which accuses president trump of violating the us constitution to go ahead. the case, brought by 200 congressional democrats, says the president is breaking the law by continuing to accept foreign payments though his hotels and businesses while he is in office. reports from gaza say israeli soldiers have shot and killed seven palestinians and injured hundreds of others in more tension on the territory's border. two boys were among the dead — one aged 12, and the other 14. for months, palestinians have been protesting every friday along the territory's boundary, demanding to be allowed to return to ancestral homes that are now in israel. the human rights lawyer

amal clooney has called on authorities in myanmar to pardon and release two reuters journalists who have been imprisoned there. wa lone and kyaw soe 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. 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. cheering 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. 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. 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. are mined are now about top story: the fbi is to investigate sexual assault allegations against donald trump's supreme court nominee. brett kavanaugh trump's supreme court nominee. brett kava naugh delaying a trump's supreme court nominee. brett kavanaugh delaying a senate vote in his confirmation by a week. you can reach me on twitter. thank you for watching. hello, good morning.

friday felt a little bit 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, that whilst there will be some showers around, for the most part it will be dry with sunshine at times. but it will probably turn cooler as the weekend goes on. pretty cold at the moment, though, underneath that area of high pressure with the 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. after a cold start, we will see 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, 1a degrees at best. the odd showers possible towards those 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 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 police operation in denmark temporarily closed two key bridges to traffic and halted train and ferry services. in a statement the police said they were searching for three people involved in a serious crime. a swedish newspaper said the operation was linked to a kidnapping. now on bbc news, our world.