today s vast social media empires are managed by a handful of big names meta, snap, tiktok, discord and x. their bosses faced angry lawmakers in washington for a tense grilling about why children continue to be exposed to harm on their platforms. as a mother, this is personal and i share the sense of urgency. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. it may have been heartfelt, but the senators weren t buying it. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. mark zuckerberg from meta, which owns facebook and instagram, came under the heaviest fire. these results may contain images of child sexual abuse, and then you gave users two choices get resources, or see results anyway. mr zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking? all right, senator, the basic science behind that is that when people are s
the wider incident. dyfed powys police told this programme. the furnace action group says the policing bill could have been avoided if the home office had just consulted with the local community and listen to them. we said at the outset of the campaign lastjune that the plan to house asylum seekers at the stradey park hotel was deeply flawed, that no due diligence had been done on the subject, and we wanted to preserve the 100 jobs that are on site. but sadly, during the course of the campaign, there was quite a lot of friction, a lot of splits in the community, a lot of aggro, a lot of social media commentary, resulted in lots of pain and heartache for lots of people. but for now, this community is trying to restore the hotel once seen as its jewel, while grappling with the tensions that have been left in its wake. the home office told newsnight, the government is making significant progress with moving asylum seekers out of hotels, which cost uk taxpayers £8.2 million pou
zuckerberg, insisted they were investing billions in safety and trust. here s our technology editor, zoe kleinman. today s vast social media empires are managed by a handful of big names meta, snap, tiktok, discord and x. their bosses faced angry lawmakers in washington for a tense grilling about why children continue to be exposed to harm on their platforms. as a mother, this is personal and i share the sense of urgency. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. it may have been heartfelt, but the senators weren t buying it. mr zuckerberg, you and i the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. mark zuckerberg from meta, which owns facebook and instagram, came under the heaviest fire. these results may contain images of child sexual abuse, and then you gave users two choices get resources, or see results anyway. mr z
evacuating their citizens from the capital khartoum as fighting between two rival armed groups continues. most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. these are pictures of french nationals leaving earlier. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people. the us and uk have already flown diplomats out, as well as canada. canada s prime minister, justin trudeau, tweeted that canadian officials in nearby countries have also been mobilized to help . he says they re stationed in nearby djibouti which has european and american military bases. sudan s army has been fighting a rival paramilitary group, the rsf, for more than a week. this is the scene in the capital, khartoum. and while foreign nationals are airlifted out, sudan s civilians remain trapped in the fighting. the violence worsening the country s already desperate humanitarian crisis. our correspondent mayeni jones is in lagos with the latest. it s a very difficult situation
are being instructed to shelter in place as western governments try to figure out a means to safely evacuate them. also tonight, scientific censorship in china. crucial genetic sequencing that could have helped with the fight against covid, was deleted, covered up or withdrawn under pressure from party officials. we will speak to the new york times investigators. what about the transition to clean power? nine countries meeting in belgium today have commited to building an entire electricity system in the north seas, based on renewable energy. and we will talk about the global addiction to cheap clothing 10 years on from the rana plaza disaster in bangladesh have we improved conditions for some of the poorest workers in the developing world. but first to sudan, a country fast coming apart at the seams. in khartoum it is now a stark choice between hunger and deprivation indoors and the risk of being killed in the street battles outside. there are tens of thousands of foreign