welcome to bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: facebook apologises as its platforms suffer their biggest ever outage. they say service on the social network, on whatsapp, and instagram is resuming but full access may take some time. a donor to britain's governing party involved in a russian corruption scandal. the latest allegation to come out of the pandora papers. we report from haiti, where busloads of migrants supported by the us find themselves back in a country they haven't lived in in years. translation: what hurts i is the treatment we received. inhuman. most of all, the chains on our feet. we're not slaves. migration is a right, not a crime. lights, camera,

industrial action. tv and film crews across the us vote to go on strike for the first time in the industry's history, in a move that would halt almost all production. hello and welcome to the programme. facebook says an outage that took down its social media site, as well as instagram and whatsapp, slowly returning to normal. facebook has apologised for what it called networking issues. the company was forced to send a message to his millions of viewers on twitter. the ceo of facebook, mark zuckerberg, issued this statement saying things are slowly coming back to normal and thanking users for their patients. shares in the company closed down almost 5% in new york. we have the

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widespread impact. that is the challen . e widespread impact. that is the challenge you _ widespread impact. that is the challenge you have _ widespread impact. that is the challenge you have nowadays i challenge you have nowadays with software development happening at such a rapid pace. people are constantly making updates and everyone wants new features, your customer may be interested in a specific trend and you want to make sure you capitalise on that trend before your competitors for other social media platforms. as a result there is this urge and ross to go to market. you know, sometimes simple mistakes can have pretty devastating long—term effect supplied in terms of the impact, we shouldn't get sidetracked, this isn't just a shouldn't get sidetracked, this isn'tjust a case of people can't look at photos of their relatives for a while.- relatives for a while. this is some businesses _ relatives for a while. this is some businesses rely - relatives for a while. this is some businesses rely on i relatives for a while. this isi some businesses rely on it, loggains, there is quite serious impact as well, isn't there? ~ serious impact as well, isn't there? ., , there? well, with platforms like facebook _ there? well, with platforms like facebook who - there? well, with platforms like facebook who have - there? well, with platforms - like facebook who have become such a crucial part of the backbone of every�*s lives today, if you think about it more than half the world's population uses facebook. and facebook provides you certain

features that are supposed to help you manage your username and password that are so you can sign up for other applications and, say, sign in with facebook or sign in with google, that make sure you don't have to create extra passwords and usernames for all the different app you want to access. the problem you have now is that when facebook is down those applications also become inaccessible to the users who leveraged facebook for logging into the application. so, you know, the impact is pretty far—reaching and if you think about something like whatsapp, that ecosystem is internationally connected. there are organisations that rely on acro won four communicating with their customers worldwide and theseit their customers worldwide and these it as a customer service function and so on and so forth. so the impact being pretty significant. we haven't not ten pretty significant. we haven't got ten seconds, _ pretty significant. we haven't got ten seconds, are - pretty significant. we haven't got ten seconds, are you - got ten seconds, are you suggesting this lead to a rethink then, some kind of different approach that businesses and people with loggains need some other level of guarantee?— of guarantee? welcome of username _ of guarantee? welcome of username and _ of guarantee? welcome of username and password i of guarantee? welcome of i username and password has served us well, but i think it

is time to move on to something and new. leveraging things like using people's biometrics, where they are located, or even things like artificial intelligence and machine learning are things we have to look into. that is to come up with a better way to figure out who you are. with a better way to figure out who you are-— who you are. thank you very much, nabil_ who you are. thank you very much, nabil hannan, - who you are. thank you very much, nabil hannan, thank| who you are. thank you very i much, nabil hannan, thank you for coming on. thank you. the outage is not the only reason facebook is in the news at the moment. a bad week could be about to get worse. on tuesday whistleblower used to work for the company will tell us politicians at a senate hearing that facebook�*s own metrics know how much time it causes people. with me is courtney bembridge. start with the whistleblower, who are they and what are they alleging. it's a woman named frances haugen. and until recently she worked at the civil integrity unit at facebook. she left earlier this year and on her way out she carried a series of documents that's since been dubbed the facebook files. they had a range of information

in them. one of the things the senate hearing will be focusing on is the impact of instagram on is the impact of instagram on young users. the company's own research found almost one third of young girls who used instagram found that it made them feel worse about their body. that is of chief concern. there are other mental health concerns related to social media that are not new to us. central to frances haugen�*s claim is the idea that the algorithm is designed to pick up algorithm is designed to pick up on human emotion and give you content that will make you angry. so that, it says, favours misinformation, hateful content, polarising content, and frances haugen says that created this conflict of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for the company. she spoke more to 60 minutes on cbs ahead of this hearing.— of this hearing. facebook has realised that _ of this hearing. facebook has realised that if _ of this hearing. facebook has realised that if they - of this hearing. facebook has realised that if they change i realised that if they change the algorithm to be safer pecule _ the algorithm to be safer people will spend less time on the site. — people will spend less time on the site, they will click on lizards, _ the site, they will click on lizards, they will make less money _ lizards, they will make less money -- _ lizards, they will make less money. —— less ads. lizards, they will make less money. -- less ads.- lizards, they will make less money. -- less ads. lots of --eole

money. -- less ads. lots of people will _ money. -- less ads. lots of people will be _ money. -- less ads. lots of people will be watching - money. -- less ads. lots of people will be watching thisi money. -- less ads. lots of i people will be watching this in adhering to hear the evidence. this is senate hearings in the us, and this isn't a company that only operates in the us. that is right. it has to point a building users around the world, as your previous guest said, more than half the population. this is a problem replicated around the world. us lawmakers are looking at what is happening in that country and they found that last year, in 2020, the work that facebook did to kind of tackle misinformation, only about 13% of it was conducted outside the us, but 90% of facebook�*s users on its various app are outside the us. clearly there is a lot more work to be done here. but facebook has said we are working on this and we can bring up a statement. they said to suggest we encourage both content and do nothing isjust not true. so they have said that the whistleblower�*s claims are misleading and it is working in this space. it is worth noting that the whistleblower also talked about the deadly capital hill rides earlier this year, saying facebook had helped fuel than

ljy facebook had helped fuel than by creating this atmosphere where this hate speech was able to replicate and facebook has again said that those claims are ludicrous and blame should fall sale —— solely at the feet of those carried out the and those who encourage them. we will see what else comes out in the senate hearings on tuesday. thank you. facebook, instagram, whatsapp may have been out but the bbc news website is available, login there are on the bbc news app login there are on the bbc news app to find out and keep up—to—date with exactly what happened or went wrong with those social media sites. let us see what else is hitting headlines around the world. taiwan has called on beijing to stop irresponsible, provocative actions after 56 chinese warplanes entered its air defence zone on monday. that's the largest ever reported incursion by china's airforce. china, which sees taiwan as a breakaway province, has blames taiwan's ally, 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 and barriers have been

put in place in seven locations to try to stop the crude oil from reaching shore. this leak is spreading after a pipeline leaked south of los angeles, spilling almost 600,000 litres. a court in australia has been told that the founder of the hillsong church will plead not guilty concealing information about child sexual abuse. brian houston did not appear in hearing in sydney on tuesday, but his lawyer indicated that he would deny the charge. the case has been adjourned until 23 november. next, a secretive russian whose businesses have backed 3a member parliament from the uk's all in conservative party has been involved in a russian corruption scandal. that is according to an investigation ljy according to an investigation by the bbc�*s panorama programme. documents show that the former oil executive, victor fedotov, secretly benefited from the alleged

fraud. his lawyers have told the bbc there is no evidence whatsoever that he behaved improperly. the revelations come from the pandora papers, billy goff i2 come from the pandora papers, billy goff 12 million offshore documents. richard bilton has the story. these are the beaches of eastney. a russian businessman has big plans for them. france is 100 miles across the channel. later this month, the uk government will decide whether or not to approve an ambitious plan to link the two with an underwater energy and communication cable. the billion pound scheme would be built by aquind, a company owned by viktor fedotov. it is controversial because his businesses have given the conservatives £740,000 including donations to sa tory mps. the reason this matters is that aquind wants to lay a power cable under 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. archive: the total length - of our pipelines is over 68,000 kilometres... documents show how mr fedotov and two managers of transneft, the russian state oil pipeline firm, secretly owned company that was awarded transneft contracts. it was previously alleged in russia that the company was paid huge sums for work that was never done. now, the files show how profits from the transneft contracts were pushed through offshore companies to secretive trusts controlled by mr fedotov and the two other men. it looks like they siphoned off more than $100 million from transneft. if people are able to construct

a scheme whereby they can extract, for doing nothing, $100 million plus, out of government funds, then the real loser are the men, women and children who rely on the government to give them education, health, roads, social services. lawyers for aquind and mr fedotov says there was no evidence that funds were embezzled from transneft. mr 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 mr 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 all i can say on that one

is that all these donations are vetted in the normal way, in accordance with rules that were actually set up under the labour government, so we vet them the whole time. a conservative party spokesman says fundraising is a legitimate part of the democratic process and government policy is in no way influenced by donations. richard bilton, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: a real—life star trek. william shatner, who played captain kirk, is to travel into space at the age of 90. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything's going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more, as it used to be before slobodan milosevic took power. the dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet, has won this year's

nobel peace prize. as the parade was reaching its climax, two grenades i exploded and a group of- soldiersjumped from a military truck taking part in the paradel and ran towards the president, firing from kalashnikov automatic rifles. - after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of henry viii�*s tragic warship emerged. but even as divers worked to buoy her up, the mary rose went through another heart—stopping drama. i want to be the people's governor. i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. this is bbc news. the headlines

— facebook apologises as their platform suffers their biggest ever outage. a service on the social network, instagram and whatsapp may take some time to return. us lawmakers will hear evidence from a facebook whistleblower who claims the company covered up who claims the company covered up research into its harm into mental health. the ussr define hundreds of migrants back to the caribbean after crossing into texas illegally. they have been housed in a makeshift camp in the border city of del rio. there has been a surge of haitians trying to flee instability and astral disasters in the country, looking for asylum in the us. —— natural disasters. our correspondent has the story. many haven't set foot on haitian soil in nearly a decade. now they are being sent back in their droves. every day, plane—loads of haitian deportees arrive at port—au prince airport,

returning from the border camps in texas. exhausted and disappointed, most own nothing in haiti but the clothes on their back. danielle and her family spent four months in chile. her son was born there. now, thrust back into a country on the brink of collapse. the family was never given a chance to apply for asylum by us officials, who reportedly told the deportees they were being flown to florida. 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 treatment we received. inhumane. 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 ill—afford more people arriving hour after hour. as we are talking, there is another bus right behind me.

there is the sort of constant return, then? yes, as i say, this is a record day. we expect flights coming in to the evening. 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—mexico border but there are many more thousands of haitian migrants stuck around the region, bottlenecked in colombia, panama, central america. a truly continent—wide crisis landing back on haiti's shores. like most of the child deportees, this family'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 at a friends in a gang— controlled part of town. "what now?"

he says. "we have nothing, we will have to travel again. "the children aren't even haitians, they are brazilians. "when they asked me, "what is happening, daddy?" "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. president biden has accused republicans of acting recklessly and dangerously for blocking efforts to increase the debt ceiling. unless congress agrees to an agreement, within about a fortnight many parts of the government will have to shut down. mr biden said the effects

would be far—reaching. drama in hollywood where the industry's offscreen workers have voted to strike if the union cannot reach agreement with producers on a new contract. this would be the first nationwide industry straight in the 128 open year history, and it would hold all film and tv production in america. rebecca rhine has been helping the union with their negotiations and told us what they hope to achieve. we are really asking for working conditions that most workers take for granted. we are asking for meal breaks during the day, we are asking for weekends, we are asking for rest periods between shifts. we are looking for liveable wage for some of the lowest paid crafts, looking for sustainable benefits as we all learned during the pandemic, health benefits are essential, and a pension to allow people to retire with dignity. and we are asking that what was once called new media now be treated as traditional

media, and they're very profitable companies that produce that pay industry—standard wages to our members for that work. just to be clear do you mean streaming, the big streaming services here? you say they aren't giving the right terms and conditions? they were given some accommodations when the business was young and we all wanted it to grow together, but i don't think there can be any question that the business is now mature and companies like apple, amazon and disney certainly don't need a break to produce their product. this idea of going on strike, surely this is usually damaging just coming out of the pandemic as well? nobody is looking to go on strike but when 98% of your members step forward and say, "we care enough about these issues to take a strike authorisation vote,"

what you have is a moment in time that the pandemic led to, which is people understand that health and safety are vital and that these producers can in fact, when they want to, create a culture that keeps people healthy and safe, because they did it during the pandemic when our members risked their lives to go back to work early. how confident are you that the strike could be avoided? what i am confident in is that if the employers come back to the table, they take our priorities seriously, they do what negotiations are intended to do — which is to solve real problems that impact real workers — that we can find an agreement that we can recommend and our members can rectify. ok, we will see how these negotiations go, rebecca ryan, thank you. blue origin has confirmed it will send into space the actor

who played captain kirk in the cult tv show startrack. william shatner, 90 years old, will fly aboard blue origin�*s next crude rocket on october 12. michael ward is a senior writer with the astronomy magazine and i asked him what he made of it. yeah, it's newsworthy, it is something to talk about, i guess, right? that was a point of this announcement, i'm sure. i mean, blue origin is getting some good publicity out of this and it's gonna be good advertisement for the product which is a, yeah, like a space tourism vehicle that can take people on brief trips to the suborbital frontier. and i get this idea of having a celebrity onboard on your earlierflights to get your publicity up and, of course, the star trek links, well, irresistible, isn't it? it's great. yeah. i want to put this delicately but he is 90 years old. are there any particular risks with being that age and doing this? yeah, well, you know, being 90,

just getting out of bed in the morning is a bit of a risk, i suppose, so not to make light of it but he i'm sure he is signing a bunch of waivers and i'm sure he is a well aware of the risks involved. anybody getting on a spacecraft that's being launched off of earth via a rocket, that is a dangerous thing to do, you know. we aren't in the age of star trek where this stuff is routine, so this is a risk for everybody who gets onboard these things. hopefully it is pretty safe. it has a good track record, this particular vehicle has done this 17—straight times, these brief up to suborbital space and back and it's worked every time, so that is a good track record but you just never know. when you are 90 years old and feeling five or six gs when you are coming back to earth... hopefully he'll be able to handle it. he seems in pretty good shape but there are risks. you say five or 6gs, is that g—force there, the pressure on the body?

yeah, and that's not crazy but it's not something that most of us are used to. when we're walking around we are only used to 1g, that's the pull of earth's gravity. so five or six times that for a brief period of time, it's not crazy but you just never know unless you're actually put into that kind of environment. and we have william shatner and other celebrities going up into space or near—space orbit, when will it be routine for the rest of us? that's probably pretty far off. we don't know how much blue origin�*s charging for these flights, they haven't revealed. the price for their chief competitor, virgin galactic, is $160,000 per seat, so it's probably in that range, probably even a little bit more. what these companies are hoping is that they will get enough volume going eventually where they can bring the price down. it's hard to see it coming down enough for the rest of us to afford a trip, even after saving up for a year or two for a mega—splurge

vacation. it will be a little way off, i don't see that in the next few years, maybe 10—20 years it'll be accessible to passengers. we will wait and see. ijust want i just want to bring you ijust want to bring you a reminder of our top story — the developments with facebook and the outages to do with their apps on instagram, whatsapp and facebook itself. facebook says the outage that took down its social media sites is slowly returning to normal. facebook has apologised for what it called networking issues. facebook had to send users messages to apologise. that is it from me for this hour. if you are on social media, if you are on twitter, get in touch with me. this is bbc news,

goodbye. after a couple of days of sunshine and showers we are now seeing an area of low pressure moving in from the south—west that is mainly affecting england and wales. that is bringing with it some heavy rain and it is also strengthening the winds too. 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, the midlands and southern england it may brighten up, there 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 into 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 bringing the wet windy weather is slowly going to move away during wednesday, and the next system will be pushing in from the atlantic. we started with wind easing on 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 clouding, then rain pusing in through northern ireland. 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's warmer weather on the way later in the week. the weather front parking off scotland and 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 brighter skies further east. even with a lot of cloud,

temperatures could reach 19 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 first thing 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. the headlines: facebook has apologised to users of its social network, as well as its services whatsapp and instagram, after they suffered a six—hour outage. the company says access is now being restored but it will take some time for it to get to 100%. the cause has not been 100% disclosed. president biden says republicans are blocking his taiwan has called on beijing to stop what it says are irresponsible actions after 56 chinese warplanes entered its wood fence zone on monday. the largest ever reported incursion. china can we taiwan a breakaway province, blames the us for increasing tensions. the crew on hollywood films and tv shows have voted to strike if their union can't reach an agreement with producers on a new contract in what would be the first station—wide walkout in the history. it could see most productions grind to a halt.

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