facebook, you re headquartered here. they were on notice that this was a problem. we kept raising it to them and they just simply didn t act, despite the fact that latinos were being targeted not just in voter suppression with voter suppression campaigns but also with efforts to undermine the census. yeah. and speaking of that whistleblower testimony, i want to play a small section of this for our viewers. this is from last month. watch this. based on what i saw in terms of allocation of integrity spending, so one of the things disclosed in the wall street journal is 87% of the spending is spent on english, but only 9% of the users are. facebook invests more on users that make more money. i mean, that is just absolutely mind blowing. it is just staggering to think
that we should be kind of getting too panicky, but i suppose it s understandable that people are going to be feeling a bit nervous given all the ups and downs that we have had in dealing with this farce over the last 20 months. the last 20 months. absolutely. and i think it is the last 20 months. absolutely. and i think it is right the last 20 months. absolutely. and | think it is right that the last 20 months. absolutely. and i think it is right that people - the last 20 months. absolutely. and i think it is right that people are - i think it is right that people are really keeping an eye on this and are quite cautious about it. when we were looking at the delta variant before and when that was identified as a variant of concern that government didn t act quickly enough and it s a bit odd but i m hearing some people kind of we don t know what it is yet but it s being identified as a concern of the world health organisation, and i think this is the time exactly that we should be h
a scathing new accusation shed light on alleged fail thursday may have worsened the january 6th insurrection. an nonious whistle-blower who identifies as a former high-ranking capitol police official says department leadership withheld vital intelligence and didn t act once the violence began. cnn s whitney wild is tracking this for us. whitney, what can you tell us about these really disturbing allegations. well, this left is extremely detailed. it s 16 pages. it was first reported by police coast guard, and it makes two major claims here, and it claims that two of the top u.s. capitol police officers failed to act on january 6th as the violence unfolded. the letter also says that former acting chief pitman lied to congress earlier this year. the whistle-blower says in the letter they are, again, a former high-rank officer with 31 years at the capitol police department. this person came forward because assistant now assistant chief
for the independent. and benedicte paviot, the uk correspondent at france 24. hello the uk correspondent at france 24. to you both. a through hello to you both. a quick look through ourfront pages. hello to you both. a quick look through our front pages. we will start with the metro which calls for the transport secretary, to tell people to stop panic buying petrol and diesel. 0n the same story, the guardian says the government might use the military to deliver fuel across the country. the same line, ministers are set to discuss the plans tomorrow. the daily mirror claiming the prime minister was warned of the hgv driver crisis injune, but didn t act. there is an investigation in the daily mail, claiming smart motorways are plagued with technical failures which are putting lives at risk. and the government is planning to cut the earnings thresholds at which graduates begin repaying student
down on whoo we heard from the president, right? they are. as his top aids are speaking with reporters today as president biden has been monitoring afar from camp david. he is set to return in a few hours tonight. he is coming back to a washington where typically his allies on capitol hill, democratic lawmakers, are even questioning his draw down of the troops in afghanistan and how this has proceeded. with senator bob menendez saying they want a full accounting for these shortcomings. tonight the biden administration is defending its exit from afghanistan while attempting to manage the fall-out from a chaotic departure. there have been questions raised. these are reasonable questions. reporter: an internal blame game over why the u.s. didn t act sooner is underway. as cnn reports, an intelligence