meta, which owns facebook, says threads will be part of its instagram platform so it ll be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts to begin with. but the app has already been criticised for the amount of data it may collect. ray wang is a principal analyst constellation research and explained why threads could be a serious threat to twitter. it s a massive threat if you think about twitter, it only has one of 150 million active users. if you see what s going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking 2.96 billion users, so let s look at this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we used to say mass adoption of technology has occurred, chatgpt did it in 30 days, facebook live in 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get the 50 million users in probably less than hours and probably get 150 million users in less than two months. that means it s a direct threat to twitter. at the same time some users aren t happy with recent restrictions like the number of tweets you can lo
an economic recovery huge protests happened and there was no fuel and gas supplies were cut was of now sri lanka, after getting $2.9 billion from the international monetary fund,is from the international monetary fund, is slowly making a recovery. now it has to work at what to do with its huge debt. that is why they are discussing this five days. they approve the proposal yesterday and now they want to take it to parliament. basically, they are asking those who are holding the dollar denominated bonds to write off some of out of it. they outstanding the loan period as well, of up to perhaps 15 years and no interest free payment for at least nine year. this will give them some space to develop this economic recovery. because of these bonds are being held, they do not want to destabilise the banking sector. there will be a meltdown of the banking system if people start selling and buying, that is why the sri lankan government declared this five day bank holiday, which is also h
the move also comes as janet yellen met with the chinese ambassador ahead of her visit to china this week. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellin is heading to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the world s two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship but she has her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said it was imposing export controls on two rare metals essential for making semiconductors. this is seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently restricted chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions. gallium and germanium, the two metals in question will be subject to export control starting august one. in a statement, the chinese ministry of commerce said it was to protect national security interest. china is the largest producer of gallium and german
department is likely to confirm prices are calling. but with inflation still stubbornly high, policy makers here as in many other developed economies aren t done raising interest rates. michelle fleury reporting. let s quickly show you how markets reacted. investors hope there may be a chance the us economy could avoid falling into a recession so we saw a bit of a rally in all the main indices. let s show you how japan s all the main indices. let s show you howjapan s nikkei has started, down by almost i%, profit taking also happening as well. in other news, sporting goods giant nikkei has reported its latest earnings for the fourth quarter and revenue coming in at $12.8 billion. that s slightly higher than expected and it also means they have been revenue estimates for seven street orders, with sales jumping in both its modest market, north america, and in china following the easing of covid 19 restrictions. going to china were on about how authorities are expected to releas
watching. voice-over: bbc news, v0|ce 0ver: bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. i actually thought at the time i must be dying or something, because i couldn t breathe, i had lights in my eyes, i thought i was going to pass out. i was brought up to the doctors and i was like, i need some help, i don t know what is going on. andrew had no idea he was suffering from anxiety and panic attacks while working hard running his construction company. i had ignored it for so long, so that s where i ignored it for about a year because i didn t know that i needed it, i didn t think i needed any help. the gp dealt with the physical symptoms but andrew was finally able to talk when he met kerry from the charity mind, who he is now working with to encourage his staff to be more open about their mental health. gareth twohey has worked in the construction industry for decades and says there is what he calls a lads culture, where men don t feel comfortable talking about their