this confirms the view that digital advertisers are betting on well established platforms, such as facebook and instagram, in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. earlier i spoke with ray wang, the founder of the tech advisory firm constellation research and he told me that meta has managed to keep eyeballs on its platforms and advertisers know that. yeah, they showed the digital ad winter is thawing and that is a really important piece. what you mentioned earlier was important, advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the users and the eyeballs, they are not going to be there and what meta showed was that they were able to keep their monthly active users still at 2.99 billion, almost 3 billion, intact, and were able to drive sales up 3% and give a queue to guidance that was much higher between
a fragile three day ceasefire. the violence broke out on the western outskirts of omdurman, a city across the nile from the capital, khartoum. but much of central khartoum remains calm, and thousands of sudanese and foreign nationals are still trying to get out of the country. as they flee, they re making treacherous journeys. residents are struggling to get clean water and other vital supplies, and warplanes are still flying overheard. tens of thousands of sudanese are trying to reach neighbouring chad, egypt and south sudan, and those left behind say they fear the world is abandoning them. meanwhile, britons are being told to go to this airbase, about 20 miles outside of the capital khartoum, from where they re being flown to safety in cyprus. nearly 2,000 people, from 50 countries, have crossed the red sea from port sudan to the port ofjeddah, on a ship organised by saudi arabia. eight year old karim, a british national, arrived in cyprus with his family, earlier. we heard
but adidas had said it was too similar to its famous three stripe mark which has featured on its products for more than 70 years. adidas has declined to make any further comment on its about turn. let s bring in our north america business correspondent michelle fleury. adidas have buckled under some sort of pressure. any idea why? this is a logo we are familiar with any idea why? this is a logo we are familiar with and any idea why? this is a logo we are familiar with and it any idea why? this is a logo we are familiar with and it has any idea why? this is a logo we are familiar with and it has enjoyed - any idea why? this is a logo we are familiar with and it has enjoyed a i familiar with and it has enjoyed a resurgence within trainers and now here we are a couple of days after they opposed a new trademark application from black lives matter, they have reversed course on their objection, the company did not give a reason, but apparently a source told reuters that adi
son on tv, but you know that child of holocaust was reporting the news. the best revenge. is to survive and thrive. that s why it s so important that we educate and we show the world what was going on, and that s what we re doing. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield and us diplomatic personnel and their families are now out of sudan. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti in a dramatic overnight evacuation more than 100. us special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the u. s embassy in her tomb has now suspended operations. violence in sudan broke out more than a week ago. heavy fighting between rival military factions, leaving more than 400 dead and thousands injured. cnn s or in lieberman is at the pentagon for so or in what more are you learning about this operation? this was an operation carried out effectively in the dead of night by a fairly small group of special operations forces right ar