workforce of 8,000 might be reduced by as much as half. many twitter staff have been finding out via email that they no longer have a job. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of employees laid off today. instead he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. meanwhile, many twitter staff woke up locked out of their work laptops. they were later told by an email to the personal accounts that it was the last working day at the firm. some have been told they will be paid until february next year, getting some sort of certainty after months of uncertainty. a mixed range of emotions, certainly upset, certainly frustrating, certainly some angen frustrating, certainly some anger. also in some cases some relief, right? because this was a thing that played out over the course of the majority of this year. there were, understandably, lots of emotional tweets. another said. for others it was simply by. elon musk ma
famous theatres in london lose grants in favour of bodies outside the capital, in a major change to arts funding in england. and exactly 100 years since its discovery we hear about the continuing fascination with tutankhamun s 3,000 year old tomb. coming up on the bbc news channel, england know they have to beat sri lanka tomorrow to reach the t20 world cup semifinal, after australia edged a close win over afghanistan. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. in a week that s been dominated by news about the immigration system, the bbc has heard evidence that albanian drug gangs are using migrant camps in northern france as a recruitment ground offering to pay the passage of people who are prepared to work in the uk s illegal drugs trade. albanians account for at least one third of the 38,000 people who ve crossed the channel to england this year, according to the latest to the latest government figures. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson has this report. for each boat, eac
time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. but so much in the west because we have this cloud spilling in. it is wrapped around that big area of low pressure, and the low itself will not reach us just yet but i had a bit, pushing well ahead of it, all of this cloud and that is beginning to arrive across parts of northern ireland, limiting the sunshine. further east, it has been a beautiful day, this was the picture at whitby in north yorkshire. we have seen one or two light show is running in off the irish sea into parts of north west england and one or two bumping into the far west and fat north of scotland but generally it is dry with a lot more sunshine to come over the next couple of hours with temperatures holding at around 12 13 celsius and it ll get cold this evening for eastern areas with those clearer skies. to the west, some more showers running in off the irish sea, heavy showers in scotland moving up towards the northern isles, then that now that we saw i
find ever made. howard carter had spent over a decade looking for it. in a tiny tomb, we have everything from the royal court crammed in. we have gold, jewellery, flowers, lunchboxes, underwear, clothes, sandals. we get a sense of the variety of material that survived from ancient egypt. news of the find was rushed here, to highclere castle. the story of tutankhamun is always linked with one name, that of howard carter, the man who broke through that wall 100 years ago. but carter wouldn t have been there at all without the passion and perhaps more importantly the finance of another egyptologist, this man, the fifth earl of caernarvon. the story sparked what became known as tut mania . from a few curious visitors to the millions who viewed the wonders of the tomb at travelling exhibitions. i m sorry, there will
but carter wouldn t have been there at all without the passion and more importantly the finance of another egyptologist, this man, the fifth earl of caernarvon. the story sparked what became known as tutmania. from a few curious visitors to the millions who viewed the wonders of the tomb at travelling exhibitions. i m sorry, there will be no more admission for the exhibition tonight. hanging in the air, the legend of a pharaoh s curse on those who dared to enter the tomb. the newspapers named five men as its victims, among them lord caernarvon himself. like tutankhamun s interlocking coffin, there are many layers to this story. howard carter s successors are still finding new pieces of the jigsaw, still solving the mysteries which remain hidden in the valley of the kings.