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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 103m... hundreds of people are killed after a powerful earthquake creates tsunami sending huge waves through an indonesian city. facebook resets the accounts of more than 50 million users after a major security breach. the car giant toyota says production at its derbyshire factory would be severely disrupted if britain crashed out of the eu without a deal. also coming up... all eyes on rory mcilroy at the ryder cup. the golfer northern ireland leads the charge this morning as europe continues to dominate the usa in paris. the travel show visits london and finds out why its traditional red phone boxes are under threat. good morning and welcome to bbc
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news. the number of people killed in the earthquake and tsunami which struck the indonesian island of sulawesi has risen to more than 380. the authorities — who've released revised figures in the last few hours — say hundreds more have been injured. waves as high as three metres hit the shoreline of the city of palu yesterday evening. hundreds of people preparing for a beach festival are believed to be among the victims. officials say a search and rescue mission is being hampered by power cuts. jan gelfand is from the international federation of red cross and red crescent charity, and joins me now via webcam from jakarta. thank you for being with us on the bbc news this morning. but we ask you first of all, how difficult is it to get an accurate picture of what has been happening across the island? thank you for having me. it island? thank you for having me. it is very difficult. when you have a
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situation of a 7.7 earthquake, followed by hundreds of tremors afterwards and a tsunami, the devastation we have seen, terrible images. when that happened collapsed buildings, people in the streets, communication infrastructure and down, transportation complicated. right now the nearest airport is between ten and i2 right now the nearest airport is between ten and 12 hours away because the airport, the closest airport is, the control tower was damaged. it is quite panic on the ground after a compound disaster such as this. very scary. the initial concern must be for life and those who may either have died, 380, likely to rise, many people likely to have been affected both in terms
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of injury but also lots of shelter, reliable clean water supplies and so on. what kind of operation is now gearing up to try and help them? you have the entire humanitarian world looking at this with concern. we in the international red cross and red crescent societies, but to the indonesian red cross which has over half a million volunteers throughout the territory, we have mobilised volu nteers the territory, we have mobilised volunteers that are in the area, located warehouses, water trucks, medical teams, that poland ‘s, all those kind of hygiene and medical hygiene kits, things people need immediately, social support, the trauma people feel, the entire humanitarian community is doing all this kind of work, the concern is
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getting there because it is very difficult. communication is not very good. we already have teams on the road making that long 10—12 or dried and we don't know what the road conditions are like so there is a lot of uncertainty which is quite normal sourcing after an event like this. the tremors felt on friday seemed to have been less intense and some that have been told bbc yet the damage seems to have been pretty widespread across much of the island. yes but when you have a 7.7 double earthquake, 27 kilometres off the coast and only ten countries did, you have the chance because the plates can move a lot, this isjust a recipe for a lot of damage, so that one was a huge, 7.7 earthquake, huge earthquake, that kind of low depth, it is bound to do a great deal of damage. thank you very much
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for being with us on bbc news. my pleasure. facebook has reset tens of millions of accounts after discovering its worst ever security breach. the company says that almost 50 million users worldwide were directly affected, but it's not clear whether any profiles were misused, or who was responsible. facebook‘s boss, mark zuckerberg, whose own account was affected, says the breach was "really serious". 0ur north america technology reporter dave lee has more. voiceover: we came here to stay in touch with friends... if you tried to use facebook on friday and found you had been logged out, you may have been one of the 50 million people affected by the security breach. by logging back in, you were produced what is known as a new access token, sort of like changing the locks. you don't, however, need to change your password. all of this is happening because last tuesday, facebook discovered a massive hacking attack on its network. a flaw in a feature known as "view as" which shows you what other people see when they look at your profile, gave hackers
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the ability to take full control of accounts. voiceover: we didn't come here for clickbait, spam and data misuse. with this power, they could do anything the real user could, including logging in to third party sites that use facebook‘s system, such as airbnb, tinder and many, many others. facebook said it did not know who was behind the attack, nor what they may have done with the access. the company has informed data regulators in the us and in ireland where its european operations are based. even facebook‘s founder mark zuckerberg was affected by the breach. he told reporters that keeping ahead of hackers was difficult. security is an arms race and we're continuing to improve our defences. 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. facebook wouldn't say whether its investigation would look at why the bug was missed by its developers. the company also wouldn't comment on whether anyone
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at facebook would be held accountable for what is another huge security breach at the world's biggest social network. dave lee, bbc news, in san francisco. well, joining you now is cyber security analyst emma philpott. thank you for being with us. the potential size of this could have been enormous given the number of users that facebook has. it is surprising to say it but i suppose almost 50 million people being affected is a lot less than it could have been. yeah right, it is a lot less than it could have been but we don't know if those users were targeted. the very fact the senior people in facebook, their accounts hacked, maybe they took the most interesting people and targeted those accounts. we don't like she know the effect yet. what is the main advantage to those who have committed this hack, of getting into people's facebook pages in this way?
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they can take a lot of private personal details. some people put all sorts of things on their facebook profile. it reminds us that we shouldn't put things on facebook and social media unless we have too. but also there is the link to the third—party apps that they can log in to and i don't think that has been explored fully yet. what about the kind of information that could potentially be accessed from the accou nts potentially be accessed from the accounts that are linked to facebook, their primary way of locking in? your reporter mentioned a few there, air b8b and tinder. just taking tinder, you can imagine the kind of sensitive details that people might gain from your account. in terms of the benefit to the hackers, is it financial? we don't know yet. i think they sound like they are quite sophisticated but it could be cybercriminalsjust looking
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at for money, nation state, looking for intelligence on things i suppose, or it could be both because they do work together. in terms of they do work together. in terms of the efforts that are trying to be put in place to prevent this happening again, this was a particular feature that facebook said the problem arose, presumably they close the loophole but is it a fairly common entry point? it is a feature they introduced and it was a combination of three different bugs, all kind of combined to make this whole. i think as applications get more contradicted the potential for these kind of bugs comes more likely, —— complicated. they are commercial companies and they will not check absolutely everything before they release something so they will get things out as quickly as they can and hope to patch them. facebook is telling users if they have been affected just logged out and log back in, you won't have too
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change password, but further precautions and things that people should be doing particularly if the use site like that intensively and often keep it up live all the time to make sure that they are better protected if the company can't protected if the company can't protect them? you can come if you go to security and logins you can see a list of every word you are logged in so list of every word you are logged in so you should be able to see if unknown people are logging in onto your account. but i think with all of this we just have to examine what we are putting on social media and what kind of personal details. do you really need your hometown and your university and your school? do your university and your school? do you really need that? everything you put that there is another bonus for someone put that there is another bonus for someone if they happen to you. thank you for talking to us about the facebook breach this morning. the business secretary, greg clark, has asked the competition watchdog to review britain's audit industry, which is dominated
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by four large firms. mr clark said the collapse of the construction giant, carillion, injanuary had exposed weaknesses in the audit process — and that it was time to "apply" the lessons learned from it. the car giant toyota has told the bbc that production at its derbyshire factory would be severely disrupted if britain crashed out of the eu without a deal. it said delays for parts at the border and stops in its assembly line would be expensive, and could have an impact on jobs and investment at the plant in future. sanchia berg reports. 600 cars roll off the line here every day at toyota's factory near derby. each one built to order. it works because the parts only arrive when they are needed. summoned at a day's notice from suppliers in the uk and europe, put straight onto the production line. there is no warehouse so if the truck gets stuck the line can stop. hard brexit, delays at the border would magnify that. if we crash out of the eu at the end of march the supply chain will be
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impacted and we will see production stopped in our factory. he doesn't know how long that disruption would be. hours, days, possibly weeks. that would be expensive for toyota which has just invested a quarter of a billion pounds in this plant to build the new corolla here. it would reduce our competitiveness. sadly i think that would reduce the number of cars made in the uk and that would costjobs. they are calling for free movement of goods between britain and the eu as the prime minister outlined in her chequers proposal. toyota is not the only car—maker to be worried about the implications of a hard brexit. all major manufacturers have complex supply chains extending in the european union. and while the sector directly employees under 200,000 people it is estimated that close to a million british
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jobs depend on it. the government said it was determined to ensure that britain remains a competitive location for carmaking, that it had proposed a credible plan to the eu for the future relationship and it looked forward to continuing the negotiations. joining me now from cardiff is peter wells, professor of business and sustainability at cardiff university. thank you for being with us. we seem to have lost professor wells. he has vanished into the ether but we will try to get him back to you as soon as we can. fortunately we have some headlines. it is 30 minutes past ten. hundreds of people have been killed after a powerful earthquake in an indonesian city. facebook resets the accounts of more than 50 million users after a major security breach. car giant tiote says
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production at its derbyshire factory would be severely disrupted if britain crashed out of the eu without the deal. let's go back to professor peter wells. thank you for being with us on bbc news. dockers through what to thinks it would have to do in practical terms and why this is something that may be a decision other companies could have to consider if border controls were a bru ptly consider if border controls were abruptly reintroduced. the issue is not so much as what was introduced but the uncertainty as to what may happen on the date we officially leave the european union. this is what toyota are flagging up at the moment. given that uncertainty the risk is they will be disrupted, supply lines, they are bringing materials from across europe, many
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different locations, is usually comebacks operation in terms of logistics and organisation. they need to have uncertainty that each and every component they need to build cars will be there on time and at the moment they don't have that certainty. as a business that relies on other manufacturers products in order to produce its finished product and to meet the specification chosen by individual customers, presumably it is particularly vulnerable, it would be possible for many companies simply build up stock supplies, they have plenty of notice of the brexit date so they have a fallback position. yes, of course, and all car companies can do that to some extent, but it is not even just the supply of components and materials in words, they have to worry about the car is going out. i finished in words, they have to worry about the car is going out. ifinished car isa the car is going out. ifinished car is a valuable asset. they need that asset to go to the market and sell and generate as possible. the laser
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in customs, reaching those markets across the european union, will be very expensive. what about the impact of this in economic terms if you multiply out from toyota to other car firms? because it you multiply out from toyota to other carfirms? because it is you multiply out from toyota to other car firms? because it is still one of the biggest part of our manufacturing industry that is. one of the biggest part of our manufacturing industry that ism is true. we are very figure within trade as well. what has been going on in the last few years is companies based in the uk, in the uk, factories, have been ticking markets beyond the eu in any case so thatis markets beyond the eu in any case so that is at least some comfort in the wider economic impact of the whole exit negotiation. however we can see a period coming up of great uncertainty in the short term and probably, if a good deal is not arranged, a long—term head to the industry. investment will fall. 0ther industry. investment will fall. other plants will get that investment, europe, around the world. that will in the long term
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significantly affect employment, wealth generation and so forth in the uk industry. i would say this however, bear in mind that the european union has a vested interest ina good european union has a vested interest in a good outcome as well in this industry. this all the cars in europe stop this market is primarily served by european imports. therefore industry in europe will be pushing hard for a deal as well. this is a shot across the bow is then not just this is a shot across the bow is then notjust at this is a shot across the bow is then not just at the this is a shot across the bow is then notjust at the british government but is negotiating partner in brussels as well and the other governments that stand behind the european commission. but if this falls on deaf ears, what would be the impact do you think in the immediate period in the few days after brexit, if it is and no—deal brexit, if border controls are reimposed and if these supply chains are disrupted? is it not possible to adapt, after all they didn't exist before we had the single market. adapt, after all they didn't exist before we had the single marketm ta kes before we had the single marketm
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takes time but we will see a ball in the uk market probably which means once. that finish new cars has been used up we will see a slowdown in imports into the uk but equally we will see a slowdown of exports into europe. the only factor might be from the uk production point of view that if sterling continues to deteriorate against the euro that might help to offset some of the added costs of any kind of tariff regime that might be put in place. professor peter wells from cardiff university, thank you very much. people with severe allergies have been told they can use their epipens past their normal expiry date, because of a continuing shortage. the medicines regulator said it had agreed to extend the use—by date of some of the devices by four months. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has more. the inquest into the death of natasha ednan—laperouse has highlighted the issues facing people who suffer from severe allergic reactions. in her case, adrenaline injections from a device called an epipen were not enough to save her.
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but many rely on them for emergency treatment. michelle henry uses them to protect her nine—year—old son who lives with multiple allergies. now a shortage of epipens, the uk's biggest brand, means desperate parents have been left looking for alternatives. it is not good enough and the problem is, the onus is on the parent, not the doctor, not the pharmacist, not the supplier, to deal with the problem. your child, you know the danger your child has and the onus is very much on you to actually physically go round the houses until you get a solution. the department for health and social care is warning that stocks of the adrenaline injector for children have run out and that epipens for children and adults will remain in short supply for the rest of the year. patients are being advised that some batches can be used for up to four months after the official expiry date. i would certainly recommend to my patients that if they were having a severe reaction and they noticed their epipen was out of date,
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i would rather that they checked to look, if the liquid inside is clear, it is safe to use even though it is expired. that said, it won't be as effective but it's better than not using anything at all. of course, make sure you call for emergency help straightaway. some patients will be advised to start using alternative injected devices. meanwhile, the government is working with the makers of epipen to resolve the issue. dominic hughes, bbc news. president trump has accepted a demand from us senators for an fbi investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against his supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. it follows his appearance before a senate committee on thursday, when he strenuously denied attacking a woman when they were at high school together in the 1980s. chris buckler reports. look at me when i'm talking to you! you're telling me that my assault doesn't matter! this moment when a senator came face—to—face with victims campaigners may have changed the course of brett kavanaugh's
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confirmation hearings. ..that you'll let people like that go into the highest court of the land... jeff flake was the key republican vote on the judiciary committee and up to this point, he appeared to support judge kavanaugh's nomination, despite the allegations of sexual assault. do you think that brett kavanaugh is telling the truth? when the committee reconvened, he was absent from his chair, involved in meetings with democrats. when he returned, he would only vote yes if the senators agreed to a delay. this is ripping the country apart and the calls i have been getting, e—mails and texts, it has been rough to see and we haven't had a process, i think, that we can be proud of. the white house says the fbi has now begun a new background investigation into brett kavanaugh which will look into what they called
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current credible allegations including the conflicting testimonies given this week by both him and christine blasey ford who has accused him of sexual assault. 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. president trump has insisted that the fbi must complete its investigation into his pick for the supreme court within a week. iam i am pleased to announce that they support the motion to proceed. president trump has insisted that the fbi must complete its investigation into his pick for the supreme court within a week. but as the last few days have shown, that is a very long time in this city. well, after a tumultous few days, let's take a look at what happens next. the fbi has been given
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less than seven days to complete its inquiry into sexual abuse allegations against brett kavanaugh. the full senate will then debate the nomination and vote on it. the timing is crucial — republicans want their nominee in place before the upcoming mid—term elections, when they could lose their 51—49 control of the senate. now to golf... and the momentum is with europe on day two of the ryder cup at le golf national in paris. they fought back yesterday to lead 5-3 they fought back yesterday to lead 5—3 overnight and have continued that good form today. rory mcilroy has led from the front on the first match. 0ne has led from the front on the first match. one of the parts of the day on the eighth hole. he and his partner sergio garcia or four up on the eighth hole. he and his partner sergio garcia orfour up in march one. is a sports reporterjohn
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watson is there for us. good morning. it looks like a glorious one. glorious blue skies here and it is european blue across a leaderboard with much of the delight of the european captain thomas bjorn. in the format that the americans did so well at yesterday morning. it is the four balls out there today. the americans won this format 3—i yesterday but as we know european produced that incredible turnaround, winning all four of the foursome matches yesterday afternoon to lead 5—3. in the four balls this morning they need in three of the format is currently. so if europe can put those three additional points on the border by holding on and winning those three out of four matches this morning, they would put themselves in a good position into themselves in a good position into the remaining four matches today before those 12 singles matches to come tomorrow. it is all set up in europe's favour. the crowd here are certainly back in europe. the partisan crowd with the players and
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the atmosphere, it is certainly benefiting europe. the united states are benefiting europe. the united states a re really benefiting europe. the united states are really struggling. they are up against it. you wonder what they can do to try and turn things around. we know they haven't won and european soil in 25 years. they do have the likes of tiger woods in their ranks who of course won his first tournament in five years but he seems to have struggled. he so often doesin seems to have struggled. he so often does in this team format at the ryder cup. europe looking to extend their winning run on home soil to six tournaments, should they be able to hold on in three of the format of this morning heading into this afternoon's four matches to come as well, they will be sitting pretty on the leaderboard well, they will be sitting pretty on the leaderboa rd tonight. well, they will be sitting pretty on the leaderboard tonight. that would certainly set things up beautifully heading into sunday's singles matches to come. john watson there for paris. we will talk to you again looked a little later in the morning. the conservatives' annual party
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conference will get under way in birmingham later — exactly six months ahead of the uk's departure from the european union. ahead of the conference sirjohn major has criticised conservative mps, who he claims routinely attack theresa may. he says those who "taunt" the prime minister over brexit, have no "coherent" plan of their own. theresa may is continuing to stress that her chequers plan is the only one on the table despite some of her own mps calling it a "dead duck". joining me now is our political correspondentjessica parker. for a dead duck it is doing quite a good job of still staying afloat, isn't it? in the circumstances. as it finally been written off or as downing street still insisting this is the only plan in time? study of people have written it off including people have written it off including people within her own party, not least of all boris johnson people within her own party, not least of all borisjohnson who went on the attack again yesterday in an article and said that chequers needs to be chucked and presented his own
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six—point plan for what should happen on brexit. theresa may never short of critics in terms of her chequers plan and a lot of people urging herto drop chequers plan and a lot of people urging her to drop it but the business secretary greg clark today saying it is still the deal they are pushing through and that negotiations are ongoing. the government defending chequers as a possibility but we have had another tory mp heidi who backed remain indyref friend who says she doesn't think chequers is workable because there aren't enough people who will voted who was aborted in parliament and therefore she thinks there might have to be a people's vote or another referendum, she has been speaking on the today programme. another referendum, she has been speaking on the today programmelj was speaking on the today programme.” was prepared to give chequers, as long as possible, i am not entirely surprised the eu have pushed back, i thought they would push back on
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goods and services and free movement of people which i would have been content with, but i think it is the way that the right—wing end of my party, asjohn major very way that the right—wing end of my party, as john major very clearly articulated last night, they have behaved an acceptably throughout this and have completely tied her hands and it is they who have made chequers dead and that being the case, they have made their position very clear, it probably is the end of the road, which is very disappointing and from either leaves us disappointing and from either leaves us with no alternative other than should we come to that no deal, that looks like what is going to happen, then we need to go back to the public to decide. heidi allen is outspoken. did we get the sense though of other others share their view even if they are not repaired to express so bluntly? we know a handful of tory mps think people we re handful of tory mps think people were these to happen and quite a few labour mps think they need a people's boat, also at labour
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conference that wasn't physically ruled out as part of this slightly confusing brexit motion that eventually got past, heidi allen is one person that has come forward today. it is not terribly surprising that she has now reached this conclusion. maybe a year ago a people's boat or another referendum looked very unlikely, it is looking slightly more likely today as the numbers stack up a little bit but we are certainly not the dead. the government are still insisting chequers is the way forward and they will be negotiating on that base. jessica parker, thank you very much. let's ta ke jessica parker, thank you very much. let's take a look at the weather. the day might have got off to a chilly start but it is turning into a beautiful saturday from many with long spells of sunshine especially across southern england, wales, the midlands, east anglia, further north more cloud. certainly north—west scotla nd more cloud. certainly north—west scotland because producing some outbreaks of rain. windy as well.
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afternoon temperatures between 12 and i8. afternoon temperatures between 12 and 18. this evening and tonight rain will sing southwards across scotla nd rain will sing southwards across scotland and northern ireland and northern ireland. most of the rain guzzling away but leaving behind a band of cloud. that will hold temperatures up to some extent but to the south, some places will once again gets down to freezing. a touch of frost tomorrow. generally tomorrow a cloudy day across england and wales. still some sunny spells. sunshine and showers per northern ireland and scotland. and a keen northerly breeze. temperature taking a tumble. 11—15. monday another very cool day. this temperatures perhaps bouncing back a little bit on tuesday.
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