millions of dollars to deal with illegal channel crossings. hello and welcome to bbc news. start in the us where regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, one of the major lenders to tech companies and start ups. in one of the largest banking failures in the us since the 2008 financial crisis. tech correspondent jane clinton has explained how it happened. but forjames. this is one of the days that will go down in silicon valley history and it certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we spoke to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank and some haven t. one person put in a wire request yesterday and waited nearly 2a hours and eventually found out they got the money out but another person says they have tried and tried and tried and have not been able to withdraw any funds and say they physically came down to one of these branches to try and get these branches to try and get the money out.
the bbc s highest paid presenter gary lineker has been suspended from the corporation s flagship football show after you compare the british government s language on migration to that of germany in the 1930s. broadcaster, which has a strict impartiality guidelines, said the former england footballer would remain suspended until an agreement was reached over his social media use. studio pundits and all six commentators have pulled out of saturday s programme in support. david salitra reports. gary lineker, for more than 20 years, the face of match of the day. but not tomorrow. he has been taken off air by the bbc and his co presenters alan shearer and ian wright will not be appearing either as a mark of solidarity with gary linkup. the reason? these tweets in which he described a statement about immigration policy by the home secretary as beyond awful. he then went on to say it was