of a large number of explosions. air raid sirens have sounded across the country. video footage on circulating on social media which have not been verified by the bbc show air defence systems shooting down missiles. government messages have warned people to keep away from windows as debris from intercepted missiles is falling from the sky. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, says some of the debris has fallen on the city s zoo. that comes as on monday, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky made made a surprise visit to the united kingdom to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. uk prime minister rishi sunak welcomed the ukrainian leader at chequers, the prime minister s country house. they held bilateral talks lasting around two hours. president zelensky said they discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he called a jets coalition . prime minister sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence mis
on well established platforms such as facebook and instagram in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. for more on meta s results and what they say about the state of big tech let s bring in ray wang, founder of tech advisory firm, constellation research. yeah, they showed that the digital add is fine, yeah, they showed that the digitaladd is fine, and i think that s a really important piece. and what you mentioned earlier is important. advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the users and the eyeballs, they are not going to be there. they were able to keep their monthly active users still at 2.99 billion, almost at 3 billion intact, and they were able to drive sales up 3% and give guidance that was much higher in between the 29.5 billion to 32 billion range. and that is coming on the heels of 20
saying, quote: there has been little information on the arrest and it comes amid growing tensions between the us and china. microsoft s £55 billion deal to buy us video game company activision blizzard has been blocked in the uk by the competition and markets authority. the proposed takeover would see microsoft acquire such hit titles as call of duty and candy crush. both companies said they would appeal. serbian president aleksandar vucic visited a police depot in eastern serbia on sunday, where thousands of weapons and explosive devices were on display. some 13,500 weapons were handed over to police in the latest government disarmament action, after two deadly shootings in the country killed 17 people. let s get the latest on cyclone mocha. the powerful storm tore through parts of coastal myanmar and bangladesh in south asia on sunday. this is rakhine state in myanmar it s been declared a natural disaster area, and the capital, sittwe, bore the brunt of the storm s impact. reports