the increasing number of people desperate for help with their mental health. and scotland s cricketers struggle in their first appearance in the main draw of the t20 world cup. and coming up on the bbc news channel: ben stokes is back in the england squad for the upcoming ashes series, after recovering from injury, and says he s ready to take on australia. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. how desperate would you have to be to sell your child? that s what some families in afghanistan are resorting to, as the country faces the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the united nations. since the taliban seized power in august, a record 22.8 million people over half the population face a dangerous lack of food. that s a rise of nearly 40% since april this year. international aid, which propped up the country s fragile economy, has been stopped, as the world debates how to deal with the taliban regime. yogita limaye s report from herat contains
facebook whistle blower, frances haugen, tells mps that the platform puts growth over safety. the real thing we re seeing here is facebook accepting little, tiny additions of harm, like when they way off how much harm is worth how much growth for us? but facebook has told the bbc it has rules against harmful content, and has halved the amount of hate speech on its site. the prevalence of hate speech on facebook is less than a fifth of a percent. that s less than .05%. and that s a result of the progress we ve made in developing technology to find and remove that kind of content. a key spending pledge to help some of the world s poorest countries cut their carbon footprint has not been met, days before world leaders meet in glasgow for the cop26 climate summit. when s your birthday? may 5th, why? oh, i m just making a list of people s birthdays. 0h, mine s december. yeah, whatever. and tributes pour in for james michael tyler who starred as gunther in friends and has die
more than a third of the world s population are active users of facebook and its other social media products. no company in the world has such power and yet such little transparency. but things are changing. since friday, a consortium of news organizations in the united states has begun publishing a series of stories called the facebook papers the evidence comes from hundreds of internal company documents which have been sent to the securities and exchange commission and provided to congress, by facebook whistleblower frances haugen and her legal counsel. the evidence points directly at mark zuckerberg. time and again in these papers, company insiders say the facebook ceo chose profit over safety, compromising his own rules, with disastrous outcomes. today, ms haugen was here in the uk to give evidence to a parliamentary committee. she told them her former employer is unquestionably making hate worse . the algorithms take people who have very mainstream interests interes
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are torcuil crighton who s westminster editor at the daily record and claire cohen, women s editor at the daily telegraph. the telegraph reports demands for improved pay and conditions by lorry drivers saying there could be co ordinated strikes if their demands aren t met. the metro splashes on an offer by boris johnson for temporary visas for 800 eu workers for abbatoirs. the yorkshire post carries the resignation of yorkshire s police commissioner after comments he made about women s safety. the financial times reports fears of a trade war if the uk government rejects the eu s latest plans for northern ireland. the guardian says doctors leaders fear many gps could leave the profession as a result of the government s plan to increase face to face appointments. the express looks at a study of people who take statins saying there may be a link with a reduced risk of dying