welcome to newsday on the bbc, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: facebook apologises as its platforms suffered their biggest ever outage. they say service on the social network, whatsapp and the gram is —— instagram is resuming full access may take some time stopping assigned to an end of us tariffs on imports from china as the top trade negotiator accuses beijing of failing to live up to its promises. the donor to britain's governing party involved in a russian corruption scandal. and we report from haiti, where

busloads of migrants deported by the us find themselves back in the country they haven't lived in for years.- in the country they haven't lived in for years. what hurts is the treatment _ lived in for years. what hurts is the treatment we - lived in for years. what hurts| is the treatment we received. in human. most of all, the chains on ourfeet. in human. most of all, the chains on our feet. we are not slaves, migration is a right, not a crime. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's eight in the morning and singapore and five in the in silicon valley where the tech giant facebook set an outage that put down the social media site as well as instagram and whatsapp are slowly returning to normal. facebook has apologised for what it called networking issues. the company was forced to send an issue to its millions of users on twitter which wasn't affected. in the last hour or so the ceo

of facebook mark zuckerberg issued this statement: shares in the company closed down almost 5% in new york. not only has facebook had to deal with a major outage, the company has also been dealing with the fallout from a whistleblower leak. a former employee claimed that the firm prioritises its own growth over public safety. she is due to testify at a senate hearing in washington later. mike issak is a technology correspondent for the new york times stop ba asked how difficult a period this is for facebook? it asked how difficult a period this is for facebook?- this is for facebook? it has not been — this is for facebook? it has not been a _ this is for facebook? it has not been a good _ this is for facebook? it has not been a good three - this is for facebook? it has l not been a good three weeks this is for facebook? it has - not been a good three weeks for facebook after the series with the wall streetjournal and a the wall street journal and a lot the wall streetjournal and a lot of investigations but they do think it has been one of the most sustained crisis periods for the company probably since 2018 when the cambridge analytic revelations were going

on. they are sort of scrambling right now internally to get systems back online, starting to fix other platform actually operates, and then tomorrow and stay we will see in the us the whistleblower actually go and testify in front of congress. mike, at this point in time, what is the status of these apps? and what are you hearing about how soon they might come back online?— back online? sure, so 'ust before we i back online? sure, so 'ust before we started i back online? sure, so just| before we started speaking back online? sure, so just i before we started speaking i was on the phone with the company and they can firmed that they have been to the data centres in california to reset some of their systems, and some of these services should be coming back online within the next hour or so. it will take some time to stabilise, so getting back to normal and reliable versions of instagram and facebook that you are used to is not going to be immediate but you should start to see them coming back online pretty

soon. basically they had to turn the system off and then on again which is kind of like axing a dvd player or something.— axing a dvd player or something. axing a dvd player or somethina. ., , ., , , something. yeah, very old-style technology _ something. yeah, very old-style technology for — something. yeah, very old-style technology for a _ something. yeah, very old-style technology for a very _ something. yeah, very old-style technology for a very modern . technology for a very modern technology for a very modern technology problem. when you look at the fact that so many of these apps are owned by the one company, it really sort of highlight the dependence that we have on facebook, doesn't it? ~ , , we have on facebook, doesn't it? ~ , y a, we have on facebook, doesn't it? absolutely. i mean, you know, it — it? absolutely. i mean, you know. it is _ it? absolutely. i mean, you know, it is not _ it? absolutely. i mean, you know, it is not until- it? absolutely. i mean, you know, it is not until the - know, it is not until the thoughts of major outages happen that you recognise how integrated facebook is into all parts of the world. i've been talking to folks in different countries in africa who are saying their businesses rely entirely on whatsapp to sell books, t—shirts, whatever they might do. i took to a man in ireland earlier today whose clothing line launched new products yesterday and he primarily relies on facebook and instagram to sell them, so

is losing out on thousands of dollars. and then there is the ability to log into different services with the facebook app, so even if you are not using facebook directly you might not be able to get into different apps that you use facebook as a connected point to. so we really to see the world connected to facebook in ways we just don't see most of the time. mike and they were speaking before, obviously some of those services have started coming back online and as i have been telling you, facebook has been apologising for that lack of service, it is going to take some time, they say, for it to come back online100% so if you are still struggling, that may be the reason why. facebook, instagram and whatsapp may have been down but i'm happy to tell you that our very own bbc news website is still available for you, so just log onto our website or take a look via our app, about

the latest on what went wrong with those social media site. let's ta ke let's take a look now at some of the other stories in the headlines today: with president biden has accused republicans were blocking his plans to try to raise the us government's debt ceiling of acting recklessly and dangerously. america's borrowings have reached $28.4 trillion and unless congress agrees to an increase within a fortnight many parts of the government will have to shut down. mr biden said the effect would be far—reaching. in biden said the effect would be far-reaching.— far-reaching. in the days ahead. — far-reaching. in the days ahead, even _ far-reaching. in the days ahead, even before - far-reaching. in the days ahead, even before the i far-reaching. in the days - ahead, even before the default day, people may see the value of their retirement account shrink. they may see interest rates go up, which will raise their mortgage payments and car payments. your savings and your pocket but could be directly impacted by this republican stomp. impacted by this republican stom. , ., . , impacted by this republican stom. i. impacted by this republican stom. , ., ., stomp. tyrone has called on

bei'ina stomp. tyrone has called on beijing to — stomp. tyrone has called on beijing to stop _ stomp. tyrone has called on beijing to stop irresponsible| beijing to stop irresponsible provocative actions after chinese warplanes entered its air defence zone on monday. that's the longest ever reported incursion by china's air force. china which sees taiwan as a breakaway province has blamed the us for increasing tensions in the region. officials in california say the oil slick washing up along the coast is spreading to more beaches. booms have been put in place in seven locations to try to stop the crude oil from reaching shore. a slik is spreading after a pipeline leaked south of los angeles spilling almost 600,000 litres. a secretive russian whose businesses have backed 34 members of parliament from the uk's ruling party has been involved in a russian corruption scandal, according to an investigation by the bbc�*s panorama programme. leaked documents show that the

former oil executive viktor fedotov benefited from a deal. it comes from a leak of 12 million offshore documents. a russian businessman has big plans for these which is a. later this month the uk government will decide whether or not to approve an underwater communication cable the billion pound scheme would be built by a company owned by viktor fedotov. it is controversial because his businesses have given the conservatives £740,000 including donations to 34 tory mps. the

£740,000 including donations to 34 tory mps-_ 34 tory mps. the reasons this matters is _ 34 tory mps. the reasons this matters is that _ 34 tory mps. the reasons this matters is that aquind - 34 tory mps. the reasons this matters is that aquind wants j 34 tory mps. the reasons this i matters is that aquind wants to lay a park headland at the channel. you have to ask yourself, why in those circumstances, aquind feels it needs to go to such elaborate efforts and spend such money and so much time to get access to the conservative party. working with the international consortium of investigative journalists and the guardian, panorama has found out how the man behind the plan made a fortune. ., . ., fortune. the total length of our pipelines _ fortune. the total length of our pipelines 68,000 - our pipelines 68,000 kilometres... , , ., kilometres... documents show how viktor _ kilometres... documents show how viktor fedotov _ kilometres... documents show how viktor fedotov and - kilometres... documents show how viktor fedotov and two . how viktor fedotov and two managers of transneft secretly owned company that was awarded transneft contract. it was previously alleged in russia that the company was paid huge sums for work that was never done stopping other files show how profits from the transneft contracts were pushed through offshore companies to secretive trusts controlled by viktor

fedotov and the two other men. it looks like they siphoned off more than 100 $10 from her to. if people —— more than $10 million from transneft. people are running a scheme that they can extract that of government funds, then the real victims are the men, women and children who rely on the to give them education, health, roads, social services.— education, health, roads, social services. lawyers for aquind and _ social services. lawyers for aquind and viktor- social services. lawyers for| aquind and viktor fedotov social services. lawyers for - aquind and viktor fedotov says there was no evidence that funds were embezzled from transneft. viktor fedotov tra nsneft. viktor fedotov denies transneft. viktor fedotov denies any allegations of wrongdoing, and he never had any interest in british politics and has operated in an open and transparent manner. some of the money from the alleged fraud ended up in the uk helping to pay for viktor fedotov�*s impressive country house. it also funded his

company aquind and his donations to the conservative party. the prime minister today defended the vetting process. i see that story today but what i can say on that one is that all these donations are vetted in these donations are vetted in the normal way in accordance with rules that were actually set up under the labor government, so we have had in the whole time. by, government, so we have had in the whole time.— the whole time. a conservative party spokesman _ the whole time. a conservative party spokesman says - party spokesman says fundraising is a legitimate part of the democratic process and government policy is in no way influenced by donations. still to come a bit later in the programme, we will be looking at how children in the philippines have been out of school for the past 18 months because of the covid pandemic. but first, in a major sign of how us president biden will tackle the trade tensions with china, has trade representative has outlined the us strategy for working with beijing. the us and china rather well�*s two biggest economies in four now

there have been tariffs on more than half of what they sell each other. in a speech, catherine tighe said she would employ all skills to try to change the dynamic between the us and china on trade. she said she would allow some us companies to apply for an exemption from punitive us tariffs but she refused to rule out further tariffs being imposed if there were further disagreements in the future. us—china trade and economic relationship is one of profound consequences. as the two largest economies in the world, how we relate to each other does notjust how we relate to each other does not just affect how we relate to each other does notjust affect our two countries, it impact the entire world and billions of workers. this bilateral relationship is complex and competitive. president biden welcomes that competition to support american workers, grow our economy and create jobs at workers, grow our economy and createjobs at home. workers, grow our economy and create jobs at home. he believes we need to manage the

competition responsibly and ensure that it is fair.- ensure that it is fair. there has been _ ensure that it is fair. there has been no _ ensure that it is fair. there has been no official- ensure that it is fair. there i has been no official response yet to katherine tai's comments from china but beijing has previously insisted that it is behaving fairly when it comes to trade and that any us sanctions or tariffs are unjustified. scott kennedy as senior advisor at the centre of the strategic and international studies, he spoke to us a little earlier from washington and i'd put it to him that the decision to allow some us manufacturers to supply for an exemption to tariffs is possibly a good sign. tariffs is possibly a good sin. ., , tariffs is possibly a good sin. . , , ., sign. certainly in the short term it is _ sign. certainly in the short term it is and _ sign. certainly in the short term it is and probably - sign. certainly in the short term it is and probably the business community here and china will applaud that and there are no other measures specifically announced other than, we will start talking to the chinese, so i think in the short term this suggests stability but the framing of the speech and where policy is likely headed is probably a

more hawkish direction. on that, how different does it appear that the biden administration's approach to china will be from the former administration of president trump? ithink administration of president trump? i think both the framing and policies certainly have some kind of overlaps but also differences. certainly they both have a negative view of china's view on global trade and us interests and believe it's needed to use unilateral measures but what is clearly different is this emphasis that katherine tai today emphasised on renewing america's infrastructure, promoting rnd, our own manufacturing, is something we didn't see in the trump administration and working with allies, on both individually, in groups like the quad and with the eu, and in the wto. again, she sees

both of these things is important is changing the playing field with negotiating with the chinese and in fact it is clearly administration made more progress on those two parts than on figuring out exactly what it is going to negotiate with the chinese about. given that background, where do you see trade relations, to be honest, all relations between china and the us going from here? i think what she suggested, trying to be balanced with the upcoming conversations, not even calling them negotiations, if she wants to have several months before talking to china about the purchasers and their commitments to make regulatory changes, as well as talk about chinese industrial policy, subsidies, and then probably sometime in early 2020 to come up sometime in early 2020 to come up with some verdict. it could be that that verdict is most

likely to be negative, in that case we may see the us administration start to move more clearly down a line of investigation and potential penalties. scott kennedy speaking to us from washington a little bit earlier. if you want to get in touch about any of our story so far today, such as the situation between the us and china, i am on twitter. i look forward to hearing from you. you are watching you stay on the bbc. coming up: the migrants who sought shelter only to be sent back home. a special report. this was a celebration by people relishing their freedom, they think everything will be different from now on, they think their country will be as it was before slobodan miller

savage was in power. he wins the nobel peace prize. two grenades exploded and a group — two grenades exploded and a group of— two grenades exploded and a group of shoulders jumped from a military— group of shoulders jumped from a military truck, and fired towards _ a military truck, and fired towards the president using rifles — rifles. after 437 rifles. — after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of— after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of king _ after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of king henry— after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of king henry viii's - after 437 years, the skeletal| ribs of king henry viii's ships emerge, _ ribs of king henry viii's ships emerge, but _ ribs of king henry viii's ships emerge, but even _ ribs of king henry viii's ships emerge, but even as- ribs of king henry viii's ships emerge, but even as divers i emerge, but even as divers worked _ emerge, but even as divers worked to— emerge, but even as divers worked to bring _ emerge, but even as divers worked to bring her- emerge, but even as divers worked to bring her up, - emerge, but even as diversj worked to bring her up, she went— worked to bring her up, she went through _ worked to bring her up, she went through another- worked to bring her up, she went through another heart| went through another heart stopping _ went through another heart stopping drama. _ stopping drama. i stopping drama. iwant _ stopping drama. i want to - stopping drama. i want to be - stopping drama. i want to be the| stopping drama. - i want to be the people's govenor, i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. this is newsday on the bbc. headlines: facebook apologises

as its platforms suffers the biggest outage. they say service on the social network is resuming along with instagram and what up. it will take some time. the earth as a could allow some companies do set up tariffs. but once it wants to see beijing honour promises on trade. since the covid pandemic began, more than 27 million filipino schoolchildren are still learning from home rather than at school. students have been protesting on the streets of manila calling for the safe reopening of schools. the philippines has one of the lowest fully vaccinated rates in asia and the government argues it is keeping children at home to protect the vulnerable. last month, president deterred a said that a small number of schools would reopen an appellate schema. ——in a pilot scheme.

we have a suspicion, how are they supposed to learn with the current setback? parents doesn't know how to teach their students, they don't even understand the contents of the modules of the distance programme, and there is the gap between rich and the distance learning programme is typically an table because the rich typically can access the internet, tutors as well. all students will have two do with what they have. raymond, what sort of provisions, if any, raymond, what sort of provisions, ifany, is raymond, what sort of provisions, if any, is the government making for people who do not have access, as you point out, do the right technology or teaching aids that they need in order to continue learning from home? abet continue learning from home? git the moment, it depends on the local government. the local

mayers can provide some financial assistance for activities, expenses of the students, but for the rest of the country outside of men are no assistance is provided, which is why we are lobbying in the meantime that they provide for the projects and expenses needed for the students to connect online. this pilot scheme that is being talked about, how is it going? has it been fully opened yet? what details do you have? right now, the department of education is yet to finalise the list of schools that are going to participate in pilot testing, there is no date right now when schools will open finally, so we have been asking

the government to increase preparation so that final testing will be conducted within the year. raymond, briefly, what are the long—term effects on children who are out of school for so long? we are fearing that students will no longer be interested to go back to school when the pandemic is no longer here, but, right now, many teachers are telling us that they are afraid that they may have a generation of learners who do know how to read or write. this is a reality that we are facing right now, especially in early grades. raymond from the alliance of concerned teachers. if you watch this regularly, you may remember that last week we spoke to our correspondent will grant who travel to haiti to find what was happening to

the migrants being sent back there from the us and mexico. many said they were fleeing from instability, corruption, gang violence and the effects of natural disasters including the earthquake injuly. the correspondent told me that at the time the country was in turmoil. he has now filed his report. take a look. many haven't set foot on haitian soil in nearly a decade. now they are being sent backin decade. now they are being sent back in droves. every day, plain loads of haitian deportees arrive and water plants airport, returning from the border camp in texas, exhausted and disappointed, most are nothing in haiti but the close on the back. —— port—au—prince. danielle and herfamily spent four port—au—prince. danielle and her family spent four months in july. herson her family spent four months in july. her son was born there. now thrust back into a country on the brink of collapse. the country was never given a chance to apply for asylum by officials, who reportedly told the deportees they were being flown to florida.

translation: ~ ., , flown to florida. translation: ., , , �* translation: what hurts isn't bein: translation: what hurts isn't being deported. _ translation: what hurts isn't being deported. i _ translation: what hurts isn't being deported. i knew- translation: what hurts isn't being deported. i knew from i translation: what hurts isn't| being deported. i knew from the start there were two options — being let in or being deported. what hurts is the retreatment we received. in human. most of all, the chains on our feet. we are not slaves. migration is a right, not a crime. there is some immediate aid for the disorientated deportees but haiti can not afford desperately more people arriving hour after hour. as we are talking, there is another bus right behind me. there is a constant return then? , ., , there is a constant return then? , , , there is a constant return then? , , then? yes, as i say, this is a record day- _ then? yes, as i say, this is a record day. we _ then? yes, as i say, this is a record day. we expect - then? yes, as i say, this is a record day. we expect fights coming in to deceiving cost of the situation in haiti right now is critical. there are at least three humanitarian crises at the same time. there was an earthquake six weeks ago, there are people displaced by gang violence. these deportations began at the us open mexico border but there are many more thousands of

haitian migrants stuck around the region. they are bottleneck in colombia, panama, central america. i truly constantly wide crisis landing back on haiti's shores. like most of the child deportees, the stanley's children are foreign nationals, born in brazil and seeing haiti for the first time. on arrival they had nowhere to go and are staying with friends and a gang that controlled part of town. translation:- controlled part of town. translation: ., ., ., translation: what now? we have nothin: we translation: what now? we have nothing we will _ translation: what now? we have nothing we will have _ translation: what now? we have nothing we will have to _ translation: what now? we have nothing we will have to travel - nothing we will have to travel again. the children aren't even haitians, they are brazilians. when they asked me, what is happening, daddy was two i have to say, we do not have anything here, life is very tough. theirs is the story of so many migrants from this complex and troubled nation. they went through hell to reach the us, and now find themselves back where they started with no savings or prospects in the one

place they did everything to leave. will grant, bbc news, port—au—prince. devastating for the family going through this. i want to tell you about a completely different story now. it is about william shatner. many of you may remember him from playing captain kirk in the original series of star trek. he has confirmed he will be flying into space. yes, you heard that right, he is taking up heard that right, he is taking up an invitation from jeff bezos, the amazon tycoon, to be part of the next blue origin blastoff crew. that is just one week away. he will set a new record for the oldest person in space. he is 90 years old. writing on twitter, the man who, and the words of the star trek title sequence, will boldly go where no man had gone before, said it is never too late to experience new things and added, yes, it is true, i am going to be a rocket man!

what a legend. certainly, something i would love to experience with him. he was one of my favourites growing up. that is all the time we have for you on tuesday. stay with bbc news. after a couple of days of sunshine and showers we are now seeing an area of low pressure moving in from the southwest thatis moving in from the southwest that is mainly affecting england and wales. that is bringing with it some heavy rain and it is also strengthening the winds. we start with some heavy rain across east anglia and the south—east but it will soon move away. but for northern england it will be wet through much of the day. the rain continues to push into the south—east of scotland. for wales, midlands and southern england it may brighten up, they may be sunshine but also showers. around the area of low pressure we have strong winds, particularly where it is wet and it will make it feel cold. some of the wet weather could push on to the north—east of scotland later, but we are missing the worst of the

weather across western scotland and northern ireland with no more than one or two showers and some sunshine. the area of low pressure winging the wet wind and weather is slowly going to move away during wednesday, and the next with system will be pushing and from the atlantic. we started winding on wednesday for eastern england. the winds will ease, cloud and showers move away, sunshine comes out for many but then we look to the west. it will be clearing through the day, than in the afternoon rain will push in mainly for northern ireland. ahead of that, it should be a little bit warmer. temperatures of 16 or 17 degrees. there warmer weather on the way late in the we'll find the weather front backing is often productive northern ireland, high pressure into the south—east of the uk, so drawing drawing in a south—westerly wind all the way from the tropics. that's going to bring some higher temperatures, probably bring a lot of cloud, mind you, on thursday, and rain and drizzle at times across scotland and northern ireland. some dampness

here and there across western england and wales with practice because further east. even with a lot of cloud, temperatures could reach 90 degrees in belfast and newcastle could make 20 or so across other parts of england and wales. we still have that weather front hanging around a bit across northern parts of the uk. the position of the rain keeps chopping and changing, there's still the threat of rain for northern ireland, perhaps vesting in northern england as the rain moves northward into southern and central scotland. these areas not quite as warm, but with lighter winds and more sunshine breaking through across england and wales, it will be very mild, temperatures of 20 and 21 celsius.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news for you at the top of the hours straight after this programme. hello. this week, sir keir starmer delivered his first speech to a packed in person at labour party conference. today we want to explore keir starmer�*s current relationship with the media. does he have the same level of newspaper backing that tony blair for example enjoyed?