electric shock — tesla boss elon musk is charged with fraud by us financial regulators, sending sharesn the car maker tumbling. plus, $1 trillion of trade in the balance — time is running out for a new deal on nafta as talks between the us and canada hit the buffers. and on the markets: the nikkei injapan hits a 27 year high on friday after strong gains on wall street, thanks to the federal reserve‘s up beat assessment of the us economy. we start in the us, where billionaire tech entrepreneur elon musk has been charged with fraud by financial regulators. they allege the boss of tesla deliberately misled investors earlier this year, when he tweeted that he planned to take the electric car company private by buying back its shares. mr musk has called the action "unjustified," saying he has always acted in "the best interests of truth, transparency and investors." the charges, that could see him barred from running a public company in future, sent tesla's shares slumping in after hours trade, wiping billions of dollars off its value. it all began as it so often does these days, with a twe

tesla boss elon musk is charged with fraud by us financial regulators, sending shares in the car maker tumbling. a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. and you can be part of the conversation. with planned industrial action by ryanair today, we'd like to know if the prospect of plane strikes would alter your travel plans. tell us what you think, just use the hashtag #bbcthebriefing. a crucial vote is due to take place in a few hours‘ time by the us senate judiciary committee on president trump's supreme court nominee. it's the first in a series of votes before judge brett kavanaugh can be confirmed. it follows an electrifying hearing by that same senate judiciary committee that went on for almost 8 hours, with testimony by both judge kavanaugh and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault, christine blasey ford. in a session that was often heated and emotional, brett kavanaugh denied that he'd attacked her when they were teenagers. earlier, dr ford fought back tears as she told the panel that she had feared for her

tesla's boss elon musk is charged with fraud by us financial regulators — sending shares in the car makerumbling. live from london, that's our top story on friday 28th september. are the wheels coming off at tesla? the sec says elon musk‘s claims he'd secured funding to take the electric carmaker private were "false and misleading". plus — a trillion dollars of trade hanging in the balance — time is running out for a new deal on nafta — as talks between the us and canada hit the buffers. and we have been trading for 30 minutes, european markets are all heading lower, especially italian markets as they grapple with a newly formed budget, uninteresting budget from the newly formed government. and it was the week that comcast bought sky, the us fed raised interest rates — and brexit was never farfrom the news we'll get the inside track on all this with our economics editor, kamal ahmed. today we want to know — are you penalised for being a loyal customer? new research in the uk claims long term customers are overpaying for key services like car insurance and phone contracts. what's your expe

tesla boss elon musk settled with the sec, agreeing to step down as chairman as part of a $40 million deal. tesla will also have to add twop ew independent directors and oversee controls of its outspoken ceo. tesla has slumped since august. president trump has denied micromanaging a new fbi investigation into supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. a third woman accused him of sexual misconduct will not be included in the inquiry. but trump said he wants the investigation to talk with everyone. a former classmate says the fbi has asked her for an interview. >> the white house is not getting involved in the fbi investigation. the president very much investec -- respects the independence of the fbi. he says they should look at anything they think is credible. rosalind: the death toll from the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in indonesia has topped 800, with casualties expected to reach into the thousands. the government has declared a state of emergency for 14 days, with many victims found on a beach where a festival was being held. survivors of say there were no warning sirens. much of souther

tesla's boss elon musk is charged with fraud by us financial regulators — sending shares in the car maker

sites and say they cannot rule out findre bodies.e th more controversy for the boss of electronic carmaker tesla. elon musk was smoking marijuanao on a podcast, ed in california where the drug is legal. on top of that, he and the company are being sued by short seller over plans to take the firm private. neither have responded. outck obama has come swinging again the trump administration in his first major m speech of tterm election season. addressing a crowd in illinois, the former president addressed whff he described as crazy s out of the white house, calling on voters to come out in force to support democratic candidates this november. nick bryanhas more. nick: this was barack obama returning to political center stage, using what has always been the strongest weapon his andry, the power of speech, deploying it against dond trump. mr. obama: hello, illinois. nick: he addressed the explosive revelations that trump appointees are working secretly to subvert the president. obmra: they are not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff out of this white house and then saying, "don't wor

tesla be facing a future without elon musk? the us securities and exchange commission has filed a lawsuit accusing the tesla boss of securities fraud. unions claim this is the biggest day of action yet against a series of complaints about conditions by ryanair workers in a raft of countries. ryanair say 35,000 passengers have been affected. unions claim this is the biggest day of action yet against a series the royal mail has discovered what it thinks could be a money—spinner — the subscription box market. that's the marketing name for it, and you may already be a customer — if you, say, subscribe to a weekly or monthly deliveries of food, beauty products, shaving kit, hobbies and crafts, books, the list is endless. who'se doing it? who's doing it? well, londoners to start with. over 50% of them are signed up to at least one service. but the people who simply can't get enough are the welsh. the average person living in wales is subscribing to over four services. each. we're joined by mark street, head of campaigns at royal mail. these figures, it is right across the country, not just these figures, it is right across the country, n

tesla be facing a future without elon musk? the us securities and exchange commission has filed a lawsuit accusing the tesla boss of securities fraud 50% of mobile users were having trouble connecting — it's the latest in a string of it outages for the high street banks. the competition and markets authority says it will carefully consider concerns that loyal customers are being ripped off for mobile, broadband, savings, home insurance and mortgage deals. us billionaire and tech entrepreneur elon musk has been charged with fraud by financial regulators. they allege the boss of tesla deliberately misled investors this year when he tweeted that he planned to take the electric car company private by buying back its shares. mr musk has called the action ‘unjustified' — saying he has always acted in ‘the best interests of truth, transparency and investors‘. the charges could see him barred from running a public company. billions of dollars were wiped off the value of tesla shares. joining us now isjim edwards, founding editor of business insider uk. give us your take on the s e c's findings? this is like a textbook case of how not to ac

shares in the us electric car maker tesla have fallen by almost ia% in a day after american financial regulators said they were charging its boss, elon muskg investors in his company about plans to return it to private ownership. mr musk says the lawsuit is unjustified and tesla's directors say they have full confidence in him. in the last few hours he's tweeted on an apparently unrelated subject about tesla, saying he's sorry for dificulties in delivering the cars to consumers, due to the high volume required. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come: the human rights lawyer amal clooney on her latest case. they had documents planted on them. police were laying in wait to arrest them. the whole trial was a charade. she's working to win the freedom of two journalists jailed in myanmar who were reporting on the rohingya crisis. in all russia's turmoil, it has never come to this. president yeltsin said the day would decide the nation's destiny. the nightmare that so many people had feared for so long is playing out its final act here. russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. it was his humility which produced af

shares in the us electric car maker tesla have fallen by almost 14% in a day — after american financial regulators said they were charging its boss, elon muskading investors in his company about plans to return it to private ownership. mr musk says the lawsuit is unjustified — and tesla's directors say they have full confidence in him. in the last few hours he's tweeted on an apparently unrelated subject about tesla, saying he's sory for dificulties in delivering the cars to consumers, due to the high volume required. tens of thousands of passengers across ryanair tens of thousands of passengers across rya nair europe tens of thousands of passengers across ryanair europe have been affected by cancellations. it has been taking place in six of the low—cost operators of 37 markets. unions want changes to the way staff are given contracts under irish law instead of —— instead of the countries that they live. one of the flights affected was between london and germany. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: the human rights lawyer amal clooney on her latest case. they had documents planted on them. police were laying in wait to arrest the

elon musk the boss of electric car company tesla is being sued for defamation by a british man who helpedin the rescue of a group of boys trapped in a flooded cave in thailand vine and is alleging libel against the south african born investor saying he falsely accused him on twitter of being a paedophile a lawsuit filed in los angeles seeks at least seventy five thousand dollars in damages and a court order preventing us from making further allegations. all six. business updates brought to you by. going places to get. business updates brought to you by. going places together. welcome back selling needles have been found inside strawberries in all six states in australia that's turned a growing health scare into a major crisis for the country's first industry out there is andrew thomas has the story now from sydney this. again a way to go when a customer bought a planet like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to a packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it look

boss of tesla on charges he made these misleading statements in tweets. we talked about how damaging it is to the company, the shares have tumbled, but how damaging is it for elon musklly? he has to acquit himself with the sec and come up with an absolutely bone a fight reason for why he was let down and why there was a change of mind —— bona fide. when he says there was a possibility of someone from saudi arabia coming in at... but he hadn't. i know, but he should have stepped up to the plate afterwards and said this was my idea, but it is not going to happen, but he didn't. to be fair, there was a statement released a few weeks later, tesla announced it would not go private, and a friday night press release, as we were talking, timing is everything, elon musk explained that funding for the deal had not in fact been secured and discussions had stalled in very early stages. but i think it was a fair period of time before the suggestion of the deal and the actual denial it was not going to happen. you think this was a strategy to flush out the short sellers, the people who were naysayers ? sellers, the people who were naysayers? no, if you do that it is a dangerous o

dave morton, a former cfo for computer—drive maker seagate technology plc, joined tesla one day before his boss elon muskte. all of this is building up a picture of a company that desperately needs to be focused on turning out these electric cars, which are going to make a fortune. but there needs to be a sense of focus at the top. that is what is worrying investors. it is a general feeling of instability in tesla. have you seen the shots of him smoking? yes, i have. he says he hardly ever smokes, and he says that he is not a habit. he says it does not help. it is not very good for his work. that is certainly true. it‘s the first friday of the month — that means the jobs numbers are out in the us. indeed. you cannot deny that the american economy is going well. these figures are very economy is going well. these figures are very strong r&d? right, and they are very strong r&d? right, and they are a much stronger than what a nalysts are a much stronger than what analysts expected. they were expecting to gain about 190,000 jobs in august. we have always been looking at hourly wages entries, and that has be

boss used his address at the un general assembly to launch a strong attack on the u.s. and israel israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu focused his speech on iran tesla c.e.o. elon musk has been charged with fraud he's accused of misleading investors over a tweet an organist that said he'd secured funding to take the electric car maker private regulators to seek financial penalties and trying to remove mask from his position china has accused u.s. president trump of slander after he said beijing was trying to meddle in the upcoming u.s. congressional elections told the u.n. security council this week that china was interfering because of his tough stance on trade and twelve people including three officials are facing trial over portugal's worst ever wildfires the blaze in the central lady a region in june last year killed sixty four people accused face charges of negligent homicide well those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is next. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human point in the twenty first century. climate change and technological disruption facing realities whatever is there to fear is not me it is the people of ug

tesla then. the electric car company says the department ofjustice is investigating a tweet by it's boss elon muskusiness correspondent. would we know about this investigation? the investigation is keep piling on to tesla. it all stems from that sweet. the issue of that sweet is that elon musk said that sweet is that elon musk said that he had secured funding but what these officials are trying to figure out is whether he secured funding or not. what happened when that sweet came out, the stock price shot up by 996. came out, the stock price shot up by 9%. the accusations are that he sent it out to try and manipulate the stock. what mr musk has said is that the department of justice stock. what mr musk has said is that the department ofjustice had asked for information and he would cooperate. this information is in addition to another enquiry. it comes at a time when the company is in the news a lot because of production delays. and some of other things such as the defamation lawsuit by a british diver. the company can use the director's twitter feed is a company can use the director's twitterfeed

boss left on leave and chose not to return. now we do have elon musk saying that's very much in line with other large companies. in the meantime, tesla'sng this morning at 4:11 a.m. saying i am a business magnate. stuart: well, during the commercial, the dow turned positive. just as we were coming out of the commercial, it turned negative again, but not much. down two points, that's it. >>> politics. democrat senator thomas carper won in the delaware primary, defeating his opponent with 64% of the vote. this defeat comes as an upset after other progressives have beat out incumbents in other states. >>> supporters and opponents of bret kavanaugh will testify before the senate today. kavanaugh is out of the hot seat, done with the questioning. it's his supporters that are on the hot seat as of now. take a look at what "new york times" op-ed columnist paul krugman said about kavanaugh. sir, let me make a last minute appeal to republican senators who care about america's future, if there are any left. don't do this, he says. a vote for kavanaugh will be a vote to destroy the legitimacy of one of the last federal institutions standing. bret