rory cellan—jones, bbc news.2,800 previously classified files on the assassination of presidentjohn f kennedy. president trump has decided to to keep hundreds of other files secret at the request of security agencies. president kennedy was shot dead in in dallas in 1963. two lorry drivers involved in a fatal accident on the m1 in august have pleaded not guilty to eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving. both men will stand trial in february. rishart masherrack also denied causing death by careless driving while over the alcohol limit. the other driver, david wagstaff, who's 53 and from stoke, admitted causing death by careless driving. a minibus driver and seven passengers were killed in the crash near milton keynes. now on bbc news it's time for newsnight with kirsty wark. tonight, as catalans take to the streets is spain about to be torn asunder? spain has become the first country in the european union to have a secessionist crisis, with the catalan parliament's vote to declare full independence. si.

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.xual harassment and abuse at westminster are "deeply concerning". it was responding to claims reported by the sun newspaper made by researchers and assistants on social media. our political correspondent ben wright is in westminster. where have these allegations come from? no complaints have been made and no mps have been named, but the prime minister's official spokeswoman was responding to a report in the sun today which claimed some female researchers working at mess —— michael westminster for members of parliament have been sharing m essa 9 es parliament have been sharing messages about allegedly sleazy and inappropriate behaviour by some mps. we do not know if this group exists but downing street did respond and the official spokeswoman for the prime minister said any reports of sexual harassment work concerning and allegations will be taken seriously and urged anyone with information to contact the authorities. that view has been echoed by the house of commons which pointed out t

let's get the inside track on all this with our technology editor, rory cellan—jones.hardware by the firm. yes, what is extraordinary about google is obviously, they are a very powerful softwa re obviously, they are a very powerful software com pa ny. obviously, they are a very powerful software company. that is where they made their name and their money. they are pouring a vast amount of money into artificial intelligence research but they are desperate to be big in hardware. i think they are looking down the road at apple and seeing how apple controls everything from the devices themselves down to the software which runs on them and google think we would like a bit of that. they have brought out two pixel smartphones. they have refreshed their google speaker range which is in competition with amazon. they are a bit behind that and struggling to keep up there. the cherry on the top of these fantastic earphones which translate instantaneously. it is amazing technology. it has to be said, other people have the same technology. technology. it has to be said, other people

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ald was the real killer of president kennedy in order to quash the conspiracy theories. that was the opinion of the then fbi directorj edgar hoover, revealed in a huge release of previously classified documents. but those hoping to find out all the answers about kennedy's assassination in 1963 may have to wait, as nick bryant reports now from washington. it appears as though something has happened in the motorcade group. something terrible had indeed happened, and from the moments afterwards until the modern day, it has been the subject of fascination and dispute. the president of the united states is dead. as the grieving began, so, too, did a global investigation, the assassin quickly identified as lee harvey oswald, the lone gunman, according to the official explanation. the newly declassified documents reveal warnings from the fbi to the dallas police that he, too, might be murdered. just days afterwards, of course, he was shot and later died, spawning conspiracy theories he'd been

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ved in a fatal accident on the m1 in august have pleaded not guilty to eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving. rizard mazerack also denied causing death by careless driving while over the alcohol limit. the other driver, david wagstaff, who's 53 and from stoke, admitted causing death by careless driving. a minibus driver and seven of his passengers were killed in the crash near milton keynes. jo black is at aylesbury crown court. yes, this was the crash on the southbound carriageway of the one between junctions 1a and 15. it happened in the early hours of the morning over the august bank holiday. as you are outlining that it was a collision between a minibus and two articulated lorries. eight people died, there were six men and two women. for passengers in the minibus was seriously injured and among that four was a five—year—old girl who sadly lost both her parents in that crash. today at aylesbury crown court the two lorry drivers involved both appeared for the first time.

rory cellan—jones, bbc news. oswald was the real killer of president kennedy, in order to quash the conspiracy theories. that was the opinion of the then fbi directorj edgar hoover, revealed in a huge release of previously classified documents. but those hoping to find out all the answers about kennedy‘s assassination in 1963 may have to wait, as nick bryant reports now from washington. it appears as though something has happened in the motorcade group. something terrible had indeed happened, and from the moments afterwards until the modern day, it has been the subject of fascination and dispute. the president of the united states is dead. as the grieving began, so, too, did a global investigation, the assassin quickly identified as lee harvey oswald, the lone gunman, according to the official explanation. the newly declassified documents reveal warnings from the fbi to the dallas police that he, too, might be murdered. just days afterwards, of course, he was shot and later died, spawning conspiracy theories he‘d

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.e ashes. the team will rely heavily on one of their most consistent and talented players, jonny bairstow. in his personal life, he's already overcome a challenge few of us could imagine; dealing as a young boy with the suicide of his father, who was also a professional cricketer. now, for the first time in a television interview, jonny bairstow has spoken in depth about his past to our sports correspondentjoe wilson. john you bairstow is a world class cricketer, for england heres essential, a rock, a batsman and wicket keeper just like essential, a rock, a batsman and wicket keeperjust like his father. he played for england too. the link between son and father is unmista keable. that's a between son and father is unmistakeable. that's a brilliant catch by bairstow. .. unmistakeable. that's a brilliant catch by bairstow... david bairstow played cricket for yorkshire for 20 yea rs. played cricket for yorkshire for 20 years. but he never saw played cricket for yorkshire for 20 years. but

rory cellan—jones and the new google smart phone.y policy now and the reserve bank of india has left key interest rates unchanged from dominic amid weak economic growth and signs of inflation. asia's third—largest economy lost momentum after the currency was scrapped in circulation last year. the cost of borrowing was cut after trimming the growth forecast. 0ver cut after trimming the growth forecast. over to indonesia, which is facing sluggish domestic demand and having difficulty attracting foreign investment is. our asia business report correspondent karishma vaswani caught up with an investor in south east asia's biggest economy —— foreign investments. she asked him why given the size of the economy it regularly punches above its weight in terms of economic expansion. comparing india and china, the distribution cost is difficult in indonesia. if a company wa nted difficult in indonesia. if a company wanted to expand all over and touched the 240 million population, it isn't easy. and i find that the issue, because it is run by pro

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.westminster are "deeply concerning". it was responding to claims reported by the sun newspaper made by researchers and assistants on social media. a short time ago, our political correspondent ben wright gave us this update. no complaints have been made and no mps have been named but the prime minister's official spokeswoman was responding to a report in the sun newspaper that claims some female researchers working at westminster for members of parliament have been shown information on what sat about allegedly sleazy and inappropriate behaviour by some mps. we don't know if this group exists, but number ten responded, and the prime minister's official spokeswoman said any reported sexual harassment is deeply concerning, allegations made would be taken seriously and urged anybody with information to contact the authorities and this was echoed by the house of commons. which pointed out that many researchers are employed directly by mps said there isa limit employed directly by mps said t

here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. attack which for us computers around the world. but the nhs was among the organisations worst affected. and the national audit office says it was ill—prepared. the audit office says it was ill—prepa red. the report audit office says it was ill—prepared. the report details the impact of the worst ever cyber attack on the health service. 80 on health trust across england were affected, one third of the total. it is thought over 19,000 appointments ended up being cancelled. including 139 potential cancer referrals. what planning there had been to deal with a cyber attack just hadn't planning there had been to deal with a cyber attackjust hadn't filter down to the hospitals. some work had been done about it on a national cyber response plan in the nhs but having been well communicated to all of those local bodies, and in some cases organisations had to resort to telephone and paper and pen and apps such as whatsapp in terms of communicating with others. computers infected by the malicious

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.nment has repeated its claim this morning that the attack is likely to have been launched from north korea. there are strong signs it came from north korea, and ourselves and the united states also agree with that. stay with us here on bbc newsroom live. at 11:30am i will be speaking toa live. at 11:30am i will be speaking to a former government cyber security official about how the nhs could improve their systems. the australian supreme court has ruled that the deputy prime minister must be disqualified as he held dual nationality with new zealand when he was elected. 0ur reporter is in sydney. barnabyjoyce says that he wasn't surprised by the high court's decision, and clearly when you look at what the seven judges have had to say, clearly ignorance is no defence. these seven members of the citizenship seven had all argued that they simply didn't know that they were citizens of another country at last year's election. but the judges have said, well, you should have known, certainly i

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.eds of files relating to the assassination of presidentjohn f kennedy in 1963 have been kept secret on the order of donald trump. nearly 3,000 classified documents were released as expected but some were held back after concern relating to the assassination of presidentjohn f kennedy in 1963 have been released on the order of donald trump. but hundreds more files were held back at the last minute, after concerns were raised by the cia and the fbi. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. page after page. previously top—secret documents, many of them handwritten, from the investigation into the assassination ofjohn f kennedy. it was november 22, 1963 when lee harvey oswald shot the president as he was travelling in an open top limousine in dallas. newsreel: it appears as though something has happened in the motorcade group. the official investigation concluded that oswald had acted alone. newsreel: president kennedy has been assassinated. it's official now. the president is

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ee days of national mourning after at least 35 people died in forest fires. in spain fires have also claimed at least four lives. alison roberts reports from lisbon. many cases locals suspect arson but be severe drought of recent months means that even accidental ignition is can spread rapidly. translation: it is very windy and the fire has rekindled on many sides and the firefighters are not able to control the fire. my house is ok but my neighbours isn't so i need to help him, we need to help each other, firefighters, be everywhere. —— can't be everywhere. portugal's prime minister said that poor management of forests was a factor, but that arson could not be ruled out. translation: the situation is aggravated by extreme weather, drought and there is no self ignition of the forest, but what there is is the intention of creating fires or negligence. across the board in north—western spain forest fires have also claimed lives, spain's prime minister took time off from the constitutiona

technology correspondent rory cellan—jones is with me. sally went through the numbers.ory has developed, they interchange. we heard 3000 and 80,000. what is important today is until now we have been hearing about paid advertising on these different platforms, facebook, twitter and google. this time we are hearing about free content. that is reaching far more people. accounts that no turn out to be from a particular russian organisation spreading gci’oss russian organisation spreading across the internet. the washington post is reporting yes, 126 million facebook users saw this material. also, 1100 youtube videos connected to russian sources. and 36,000 twitter pops. what we are seeing here is free. this must be a nightmare for these companies. the impact of this material is coming through free post on their platforms. that is what they will be deserving in front of congress. platforms. that is what they will be deserving in front of congressm is quite interesting how the attitudes to it has —— have changed. facebook initially dismissed the idea of russian meddling as cr

that was rory cellan—jones there. justin is back to look through some of the business papers.ng fully robot? yes, you can turn up and there is no one in the shop, going shopping, you use your mobile phone to get around, pick up some stuff, pay for it and get out. it deducts what you have removed off your account, actually, so there is actually no human interface at all. heaven knows what happens if you have a question. that is surely a living hell. the idea you go to an office, there is nobody there. of course one of the great point of an office, you have a coffee machine. you have to... people talk! it is not just you have to... people talk! it is notjust forfun. you have to... people talk! it is not just for fun. that you have to... people talk! it is notjust for fun. that is where business gets done. that is how ideas are created. absolutely, you need those sorts of things! people having arguments, all those sorts of things you need to have an business because it is alive, it has a personality, and if you take that out of it, there goes. qc. justin, a great personality. the

rory cellan—jones, bbc news. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones is with me.what measures are in place now to make sure this doesn't happen again. well, across the nhs people have been told to get their act together and the key thing here is to respond when nhs digital, the central organisation, sends out warning is instructing people to upgrade their computers with a security patch. the key thing that went wrong here is that there was a warning in march and april, fix your windows computer systems with this patch and you should be safe. if the hospitals had done that, and obviously lots of them did, they would have been protected. but they didn't. the other thing is having a plan that filters down from the top to every local hospital. that is what didn't happen here. there was some kind of plan, it was never rehearsed. when disaster struck, people didn't know what to do. they didn't know who to call, for instance. is it clear why the hospitals didn't do the upgrade they we re hospitals didn't do the upgrade they were warned about a few months before? this is

here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.k which froze computers around the world. but the nhs was among the organisations worst affected. and the national audit office says it was ill—prepared. it was the worst ever cyber attack on the nhs. 81 health trusts across england were affected, a third of the total. it's thought over 19,000 appointments ended up being cancelled, including 139 potential cancer referrals. what planning there had been to deal with the cyber attackjust hadn't filtered down to the hospitals. some work had been done on a national cyber response plan in the nhs, but that hadn't been well communicated to all of those local bodies. and in some cases, organisations had to resort to telephone and paper and pen and apps such as whatsapp in terms of communicating with others. this is the message that popped up on thousands of nhs computers demanding a ransom to unlock their files. but all of this could have been avoided. a month or so earlier, nhs digital had sent a message to hospitals instructing them to apply

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports.hat attacked computers around the world with a message demanding a ransom payment, but the nhs was among the organisations worst hit and it was not ready to deal with it. 81 health trusts across england were affected. more than 19,000 appointments were cancelled, including 139 potential cancer referrals. everything we do is based around the use of computers for the records so when you don't have that it's basically impossible to work with any degree of efficiency. this gp surgery on merseyside was among nearly 600 whose work was disrupted, with no clear instructions about what to do. in medicine we have this thing called the golden hour. when anything major happens, that first hour is critical. nothing happened, there was no "please check business continuity is accessible, you might want to print off your list of patients this afternoon, you might want to put some contact numbers in there, you might want to do social media" or whatever. all that side of communications was absent. this,

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.g in. it looks as though this could have been avoided rather simply, is that frustrating for you? yes, very much so. the nhs and nhs digital starting to preparing in recognition of the inevitability of a cyber attack in 2012, 2013, and had been warning the trusts of the vulnerability they had with their software systems for at least a couple of years before may this year. there has been a lot of preparation and indeed the nhs has been subject to a number of attacks over this period, so it is frustrating that about a third of the trust and a number the gps had not taken notice of that advice. and had not implemented the advice they we re had not implemented the advice they were given. when the virus hit, many trusts clearly did not know who to ring in the event of an event like this. could this happen again or have things been tightened up? two things, there is a weakness in the system, and there is a confusion of accountability and leadership in cyber security. if you look at the repor

here is our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.children can lego life, a website where children ca n safely lego life, a website where children can safely meet and share what they have built. the government says this is an example of how to build a safe internet experience and it wants other tech firms to act to protect users young and old from harm. the internet safety strategy calls for a new code, where social media firms agree to work together against bullying and abuse. attacks on the internet industry to fund a campaign, and an annual report where firms reveal what progress they have made in tackling abuse —— tax. children‘s charities have been consulted about the strategy. they say pa rents consulted about the strategy. they say parents need more help from the technology industry. what we find is that there are being overwhelmed with information. they are getting loads of information, but what they are not getting is help when something goes wrong. and that is really, really important when you think that most children get a

rory cellan—jones, bbc news. a lot of people are saying that in the west of england the sun turned red this morning. a lot of people are asking what is going on? we can ask sarah. it is related to a free and it is an interesting answer, so do watch out later on for the answer to that. we want to hear your memories of 30 years ago and the great storm. if you have got any experiences of the day‘s weather and photographs where you live, let us have them and you can get in touch with us right now. 0n the same day as parts of the uk are coping with the impact of storm 0phelia, by coincidence it is exactly 30 years since the great storm of 1987. it left 18 people dead, ripping up millions of trees in its path. robert hall reports. howling in from the channel, the most devastating storms in 1703. it caught the southern half of the uk totally by surprise. gusts of up to 115 miles an hour ripped 15 million trees from the wet ground, tore off roofs, and cut power to thousands of homes. 18 people were killed and the damage

with me is the bbc‘s technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.has got that we can translate from so many languages. it is a brilliant feat of engineering. less amazing in that the earbuds all they are doing is effectively taking an app which is ona effectively taking an app which is on a phone, google translate and taking that technology and put it in your ear. when it is up and running in the next few weeks or so when this thing goes on sale, you will be able to tap the earbud and say you wa nt to able to tap the earbud and say you want to speak in a certain language or understand in a certain language, you will be able to speak in one language and it will come out in another language and when the bus driver speaks to you back in his language, in your ear, you will hear a translation. can we do a demo. using the existing software which is on all sorts of phone. when is the next bus to mum bay? then i can press. i don't know how good injure hindy is. what we have need issed a better interface. anyone can do this ona better interface. anyone can d

here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.ite where children can safely meet and share what they've built. the government says this is an example of how to build a safe internet experience, and it wants other tech firms to act to protect users young and old from harm. the internet safety strategy calls for a new code where social media firms agree to work together against bullying and abuse, a tax on the internet industry to fund an awareness campaign, and an annual report where firms reveal what progress they've made in tackling abuse. children's charities have been consulted about the strategy. they say parents need more help from the technology industry. what we find is that parents are being overwhelmed with information. they are getting loads of information, but what they are not getting is help when something goes wrong. and that is really, really important when you think that most children get a mobile phone by the time they are eight years old. this is something that parents of even very young children are having to tr

let's speak to our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. good morning. than a parent or teacher. you are more likely to listen to them than your mum and dad ora listen to them than your mum and dad or a teacher. we have received criticism in the past by various things. it is only £1 million, do you think the scheme goes far enough? the scheme has been welcomed by the culture secretary who says it isa by the culture secretary who says it is a good start. but the government last week brought out an internet safety strategy where it says it wa nts a safety strategy where it says it wants a code of practice by all the social media companies to agree on a volu nta ry social media companies to agree on a voluntary code of practice. that will be pretty hard. facebook, twitter, snapchat, they have all got different rules and different problems in schools. getting them to agree a common code of practice voluntarily will not be easy. the government says if they do not shape up, it is willing to impose something. it has got an extraordinary ambition to make britain