the wider incident. dyfed powys police told this programme. the furnace action group says the policing bill could have been avoided if the home office had just consulted with the local community and listen to them. we said at the outset of the campaign lastjune that the plan to house asylum seekers at the stradey park hotel was deeply flawed, that no due diligence had been done on the subject, and we wanted to preserve the 100 jobs that are on site. but sadly, during the course of the campaign, there was quite a lot of friction, a lot of splits in the community, a lot of aggro, a lot of social media commentary, resulted in lots of pain and heartache for lots of people. but for now, this community is trying to restore the hotel once seen as its jewel, while grappling with the tensions that have been left in its wake. the home office told newsnight, the government is making significant progress with moving asylum seekers out of hotels, which cost uk taxpayers £8.2 million pou
zuckerberg, insisted they were investing billions in safety and trust. here s our technology editor, zoe kleinman. today s vast social media empires are managed by a handful of big names meta, snap, tiktok, discord and x. their bosses faced angry lawmakers in washington for a tense grilling about why children continue to be exposed to harm on their platforms. as a mother, this is personal and i share the sense of urgency. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. it may have been heartfelt, but the senators weren t buying it. mr zuckerberg, you and i the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. mark zuckerberg from meta, which owns facebook and instagram, came under the heaviest fire. these results may contain images of child sexual abuse, and then you gave users two choices get resources, or see results anyway. mr z
On a day when even among local politicians rhetoric about labour abounds, in Pakistan and Sri Lanka the most defenceless groups have tried to make their voices heard. Fr Bonnie Mendes:
On a day when even among local politicians rhetoric about labour abounds, in Pakistan and Sri Lanka the most defenceless groups have tried to make their voices heard. Fr Bonnie Mendes:
link to the fund-raising page. raised more than $2 million in six days. it is still going up. joining me now is editor for nbc news asian america. thank you so much for making the time. appreciate it. luke, thanks for having me. before we talk about how extraordinary this was for a blog to raise $2 million, in any situation it really is, give our audience a little background on what exactly is bonded labor and how dig of an issue it is in pakistan. yeah, sure. bonded labor is basically a legal term for what s really modern say slavery. it is forced servitude. pakistan is not the only country in which this is happening but it has been going on for such a long time and received very, very little attention. so the issue of bonded labor basically goes like this. in pakistan, in these brick factories or kilns in particular, bricks are basically the essential building block of pakistan. there s about 20,000 of these places across the country, the employ millions of people.