payment rights on the social media platform. to discuss all this i ll be joined by the political analyst and democratic party strategist mary anne marsh and philip rycroft the former permanent secretary at the uk s department for exiting the eu. the bosses of five major tech firms have been testifying at a senate hearing about what they re doing to protect children from online sexual exploitation. the five have faced some fiery questions, with meta boss mark zuckerberg being asked what the hell were you thinking? over an instagram prompt directing users to possible child abuse material. mark zuckerberg and the boss of tiktok voluntarily agreed to testify, but leaders of snap, x formerly twitter and discord initially refused and were sent subpoenas, forcing them to appear. all have hundreds of millions of young users. senators are particularly worried about a rise in reports of explicit images of children being shared, including those created with artificial intelligen
he s been taken to hospital but his condition s unknown. shameema begum, who fled the uk tojoin islamic state when she was 15, fails to regain her british citizenship. and, at least four people are killed, after cyclone freddy makes landfall in madagascar. hello and welcome to the programme. president putin has been addressing crowds filling moscow s main stadium for a patriotic gala concert, to mark one year of russia s invasion of ukraine. he insisted that his decision to launch military action was entirelyjustified to protect russia s security. mr putin went on to stress that the cooperation between china and russia on the world stage is very important to stabilize the international situation . our russia editor steve rosenberg is in moscow. to russia s largest football stadium they came in their tens of thousands, not to cheer on their team, but to support their president. from colleges, factories and state enterprises, they had been bussed in specially for a kremlin sh
welcome to bbc news. we start with president biden who s just arrived in the irish capital dublin. earlier he made an impassioned defence of the good friday agreement in belfast 25 years after it was signed. he was greeted on the tarmac at dublin airport by the irish taoieseach leo varadkar. the pair then left in a motorcade, heading for co louth after the bad weather halted plans for the president to travel by helicopter. it s been a busy, busy day for the us president. it started with a meeting with rishi sunak both expressing their hope that power sharing can be restored. joe biden also met the leaders of the five main parties off camera he said he was in listening mode. the president will not be visiting stormont is currently not functioning since the democratic unit is party withdrew support in post brexit trading arrangements. the president acknowledged differences but said he hoped to power sharing would resume. i differences but said he hoped to power-sharing would re
hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin here in england where thousands ofjunior doctors in england have started a four day strike that threatens to bring the worst disruption in the history of the health service. it runs all the way through to saturday morning and could mean the cancellation of 350,000 appointments and operations. the doctors union is in a row with the government over pay forjunior doctors, with the british medical association sticking to its demand of a 35% pay rise and the government refusing to negotiate until what it sees as a more reasonable pay demand is met. catherine burns reports. what do we want? pay rise! how do we get it? strike! this winter, we ve got used to seeing nhs staff waving banners on picket lines. we re now into the fifth month of industrial action, but this walk out byjunior doctors in england is bigger in scale than anything that s come before. the bma is being accused of picking dates to maximise disruption. their view is indu