Employees and if you break a company like that up, if you can manage it do it, theres going to be unattended consequences. Tonight at 8 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Next on cspan3, a house judiciary subcommittee on whether Big Tech Companies like google, apple, facebook and amazon engage in anticompetitive practices that hurt smaller online companies. Rhode island congressman David Cicilline chaired the hearing. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the digital markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide web was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto the software to give people tools to c
But 1st tortoises and turtles a fascinating bunch giant come up a ghost tortoises can weigh up to 300. 00 kilos sadly many species of these reptiles are in decline only 3 yangtze giant soft shell turtles are thought to still exist and thats even though a lot of these creatures have a very long life spans some live more than 200 years and was from what Tom Valentine wanted to know more. How do sea turtles find their way back to their place of birth. To look ahead turtles are globetrotters following ocean currents they can travel more than 100 kilometers a day with their aerodynamic shape them paddle like feet they are in bursts able to exceed speeds of 25 kilometers an hour. They have to come up to breathe every few hours. Because they have lungs not gills and they go ashore to lay their eggs. Every few years a female sea turtle returns to the beach where she herself hatched digs a hole and deposits a clutch of around 100. 00 eggs in it. Then she leaves the nest and returns to the sea.
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 too. Ralphie waplington is just 2. 5 years old, yet he has almost 20,000 followers on instagram. His page features pictures of him wearing gifted clothes, enjoying freebie trips and fronting posts sponsored by brands such as peppa pig and mcdonalds. Today we want to know would you let your child become a kid influencer . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. With a Record Number of wildfires raging across the amazon, there is mounting alarm worldwide. The french president called the situation an International Crisis brazils president has said his government lacks the resources to fight the fires, and Jair Bolsonaro has accused other countries who give money to preserve the rainforest of doing so, not for charity, but to interfere with brazilian sovereignty. But conservationists have blamed his government for whats happeni
Meanwhile at headingley, jofra archer dazzles for england, taking six australian wickets to give his side the edge, heading into day two of the third ashes test. After of the third ashes test. A mixed august, sunshine with after a mixed august, sunshine along with the heat going up. Join me with the full weekend forecast. Its friday 23rd august. Our top story Global Leaders have expressed alarm at the Record Number of wildfires in brazils amazon rainforest. French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted our house is burning and described the situation as an International Crisis that will be discussed at the g7 summit. The brazilian president , Jair Bolsonaro, says he is investigating the fires, but claims he does not have the resources to fight them. Ramzan kamarli has more. The fires in brazils rainforest rage on. This year there have been a Record Number. Satellites have identified over 75,000, most of them located in the amazon basin. The situation has become increasingly worse over the p
The club has until midnight to show it can pay its debts or it could be thrown out of the football league. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. World leaders have expressed concern at the Record Number of wildfires continuing to blaze in brazils amazon rainforest. The french president , Emmanuel Macron tweeted our house is burning, and has called for the issue to be discussed as a matter of International Concern at this weekends g7 summit in biarritz. Brazils president Jair Bolsonaro responded by accusing mr macron of a misplaced colonialist mindset, and using the issue for political gain. This map shows the extent of the problem, with more than 2,500 active fires currently in the brazilian amazon which a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming. Data from brazils Space Agency Says there have been more than 75,000 wildfires so far this year double the total number in 2013. Thats an 85 increase on the same period last year. Conservationists have blamed mr