live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in america where aviation authorities are still trying to find out why a safety messaging system failed, grounding all departing flights for more than an hour early on wednesday. the white house says there is no evidence of a cyber attack at this point. the us transport secretary said the federal aviation administration must find out why backup systems didn t prevent the failure. our north america correspondent gary o donaghue reports. it was in the early hours that the problems began to emerge with the notam system, which warns pilots of any dangers before they take off. byjust after 7:00am, the federal aviation authority was ordering all carriers across the us to ground their planes untilfurther notice, causing chaos for early morning travellers. i m a little annoyed. i feel bad for the people who are actually sitting on pl
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rupert wingfield hayes reports all of these parents are being prevented from seeing their children by their former japanese spouses. outside the olympic stadium in tokyo, this french man has been on hunger strike sincejuly the 10th. he said he is hoping to bring the world s attention to what is happening to him and many other parents injapan. it was on friday the 10th of august, 2018. i woke up in the morning, the house felt totally normal. i had breakfast. when i came back at 6pm, i walked inside the house and everything is gone. like, furniture, belongings, the car and a course my children. so i called up my lawyer and i said, look,
look, the house has been emptied, i cannot reach my wife, what s going on? and he very casually told me, she kidnapped your children and it s done, you re never going to see them again. vincent s story is unfortunately not uncommon here injapan. it derives from the so called single custody system. it means when marriages breakdown here, only one parent will be awarded sole custody of all the children, there is no alternative. because of that, some parents decide to effectively abduct their own children, get them registered under their own household registration. once that s happened, it s almost impossible for the other parent to get the situation reversed. it s what some lawyers here have described to me as the first parent to abduct, wins. this japanese mother lost all contact with her two children when she walked out of an unhappy marriage over three years ago. i have not been able to see my children in three years and four months. at first i cried every day,
with regard to her sport after her arrival in warsaw, if that is where she does indeed choose to end up. so in terms of her safety and security, i think we have dealt with most of the issues that needed to be dealt with. as i said yesterday, we are expecting and have asked for a report from the noc today. we requested it yesterday, we want it today. we have decided to launch, not surprisingly, a formal investigation which will be led by the ioc administration and we need to establish the full facts, we need to hear everyone involved. that obviously can take time, and in the meantime obviously our first concern is for the athlete. mariko oi is in tokyo with more on the reaction injapan. i saw the story being covered by several news programmes this morning, how she will be leaving for poland tomorrow. but it is really