Here although it is chilly outside if you are just stepping out. For many of us it will be a dry start and a sparkly one with a Weather Front coming in from the south west introducing some rain later on. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story facebooks procedures for Vetting Content on its pages have been strongly criticised, after a bbc investigation found it was failing to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. The chair of the Commons Media Committee, Damian Collins, has said it casts grave doubts on the effectiveness of facebooks systems. Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports. The rules are simple. Facebook says it removes nudity or sexually suggestive content. But our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret groups to swa p paedophiles using secret groups to swap obscene images of children. We informed the police, and this man was sent to prison for four years. Facebook told us it had improved its systems, so we put th
to 10 february and chris mason was said at the time to have ruled himself out of the running. subsequently it was widely reported that a short list had emerged of two external female candidates, but then the post was re advertised internally with a new deadline of 5 april. in response, bbc news told us: in general, the appointment has been warmly applauded with bridget linson
transport the next review due on 10 february. well, political leaders here in northern ireland say the relaxations today are a reflection too of the fact that they believe here, as well, that peak is now past in terms of the number of cases and hospitalisations. so from today, and just in time for friday night drinks, that mandatory table service rule in pubs and restaurants has been dropped, the limit of six people to a table has also now ended. and in terms of households being able to meet up in private homes indoors, the limit of three that rule has also ended today, too. there s another significant change coming here in northern ireland next week, because from wednesday, you ll no longer need vaccine passports to get into pubs and restaurants, and cinemas, too. now as you can imagine, that s all been very much welcomed here by the hospitality industry but ministers say their message to the public is, yes, there are relaxations, but they still want people to take their own pre
point putin is saying i m going to invade or he s certainly launching an intimidate campaign to get what he wants. so where are we this morning? let s start with the intimidation campaign. because that s happening right now. that is under way and we ve already seen a russian military build up, much of it along the russian border with ukraine in the east where the ukrainian army is largely dug in, where there s a pocket held by pro-russian separatists. now we re seeing a more expanded military presence to the north and south where they focus in it can on belarus. the military exercises entered phase two, involving about 30,000 troops. phase one from 1 to 10 february was the buildup phase where we saw a lot of troops ariefzing,