The big Silicon Valley Tech Companies had a hugely successful 2020, prompting more questions about their overwhelming dominance in financial and business terms. From san francisco, James Clayton reports. There have been winners and losers from this pandemic, and some of the biggest winners are also some of the Richest Companies in the world, based around san francisco. Take here at apple, last week, the Company Posted record Quarterly Sales of more than £80 billion. At that rate, during this 2. 5 minute news report, apple will have done 1. 5 million worth of sales. Big tech has had an astonishingly profitable pandemic. We all turned to technology more during the pandemic. Its as simple as that. We were doing more things online than ever before, from gaming to shopping, to seeing our doctor, you know, theyre not charities. Laughter you know, they are making money out of, you know, what theyre enabling. But some believe that making so much money at a time of Economic Hardship shows that
That he founded in his garage nearly 30 years ago. And captain sir tom moore The War Veteran who raised tens of millions for charity during the first lockdown has died at the age of 100. Hello to you. Women in chinas so called Re Education Camps have been systematically raped and tortured, according its estimated more than 1 million men and women have been Education Centres to Deradicalise Uighurs and other muslim minorities. 0ur correspondent, matthew hill, has spoken to several former detainees and workers. You may find some of their accounts distressing. The woman is reliving a story she can barely bring herself to tell. She was held one of xinjiangs so called Re Education Camps. These Satellite Images show the site were she says she was held, sharing a cell with 13 other women with a bucket for a toilet. And shes haunted by one image. Masked men coming down a Camp Corridor like this one after midnight. Translation they were three men. Not one, but three. They did whatever evil thei
As Chief Executive of amazon, the e commerce giant that he founded in his garage nearly 30 years ago. And captain sir tom moore The War Veteran who raised tens of millions for charity during the first lockdown has died at the age of 100. Hello to you. Women in chinas so called Re Education Camps have been systematically raped and tortured, according to firsthand accounts obtained by the bbc. Its estimated more than a million men and women have been detained in the camps, which china claims are Education Centres to De Radicalise Uighurs and other muslim minorities. 0ur correspondent, matthew hill, has spoken to severalformer detainees and workers. You may find some of their accounts distressing. Tursanay is Reliving A Story she can barely bring herself to tell. She was held one of xinjiangs so called Re Education Camps. These Satellite Images show the site were she says she was held, sharing a cell with 13 other women with a bucket for a toilet. And shes haunted by one image masked men
Now on bbc news Tuesday In Parliament. Hello again and welcome to Tuesday In Parliament. As the Health Secretary promises to come down hard on a new coronavirus strain. Our mission must be to stop its spread altogether and break those chains of transmission. But is there light at the end of the tunnel in scotland . We may be able to begin looking towards a careful and gradual easing around the start of march. And the death of a hero, tributes to captain sir tom moore. He brought joy to the nation. He was an inspiration to everybody in this country. But first, the Health Secretary has faced calls from mps for stronger Border Controls after the outbreak of the South African strain of coronavirus here in the uk. Amid concern that the new variant is spreading in the community, matt hancock said it was critical that people in areas singled out for enhanced testing stay at home. The Health Secretary did have some good news, more than 10 million doses of vaccines have been given in the uk, bu
Hello. Women in chinas so called Re Education Camps have been systematically raped and tortured, according to first hand accounts obtained by the bbc. Its estimated at least a million men and women have been detained in the camps. China claims they are simply centres to De Radicalise Uighurs and other muslim minorities. Our correspondent matthew hill has spoken to several former workers from the camps and detainees. You may find some of what they have to say distressing. Tursanay ziyawudun is reliving a story she can barely bring herself to tell. She was held one of xinjiangs so called Re Education Camps. These Satellite Images show the site were she says she was held, sharing a cell with 13 other women with a bucket for a toilet. And shes haunted by one image masked men coming down a camp corridor, like this one, after midnight. Translation they were three men. Not one, but three. They did whatever evil their mind could think of and they didnt spare any part of my body, biting it to t