Lets start in the us where the facebook founder and Chief Executive of meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has criticised the Biden Administration for what he described as censorship during the covid 19 pandemic. In a letter written to a congressional committee, zuckerberg said that meta, which also owns instagram and whatsapp, was pressured into censoring content about covid, including humour and satire. He said he regretted not speaking about the pressure earlier and that he would not make the same decisions to comply if it happened again. Ritika gupta is in ny for us. Whys Mark Zuckerberg speaking out about this . There speaking out about this . Is a growing debate abou far there is a growing debate about how far a social Media Companies should go in being able to police comments, images and content by their users. Some platforms believe they should be more hats are hands off, were some governments say having an overly laissez faire attitude could lead to crime. Mark zuckerberg has come out and
Lot and im just astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation and what were going to dog is have a hearing today about some solutions, and senator leahy and myself will sit down and find a way to create somee kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know theyre doing it at the world bank, that i like the fund idea where the world kd of comes together under amecan leadership to solve the problem. So too are two colleagues, thank you very much for your leadership and senator leahy. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. With all joking they goes back and forth, i think it safe to say that the chairman and i feel very strongly about this. We do wt to help. Senator whitehouse and i were in vietnam last year. We met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic poltion, had a great meeting. S. White house was a star at that, but heres a country with a 2000mile coastline, and when i say we, that means all huma
But is promising to keep up the fight and has more from washington. All eyes are going to be on the Republican Party leadership in the coming days, because really were seeing increased pressure on them to buck the president. On this we saw the big wigs of National Security officials from former republican administrations. Theyve all come out and said this is bad for democracy. Its many of them, not all of them. Obviously, its bad for democracy. Its bad for National Security and probably more important. Were seeing dozens upon dozens of other countries. C. E. O. s, the most influential republican donors come out and a lot are saying this has to and Republican Leadership needs to let the president know that its over. Joe biden has chosen several obama era officials to serve in his new administration. And so they blinken will be no one wanted to be secretary of state, and john kerry will take the lead on combating climate change. British drug company, astra zeneca, an Oxford University sa
This we saw the big wigs of National Security officials from former republican administrations. Theyve all come out and said this is bad for democracy. Its many of them, not all of them. Obviously, its bad for democracy. Its bad for National Security and probably more important. Were seeing dozens, upon dozens of the country c. E. O. s, the most influential republican donors come out in a letter saying this has to. And Republican Leadership needs to let the president know that its over and has unveiled his National Security team and expected cabinet nominees. They are diverse in race and gender, includes americas 1st female heads of intelligence and treasury, as well as the 1st latino chief of Homeland Security about headlines, a former militia leader in the democratic republic of congo has been sentenced to life in prison for war crimes. In 2021 to bury was charged with murder, rape, sexual slavery, and enlisting children under the age of 15. This was in north kivu. Province. Question
Everyone its a question of we or me what will it be i bring gulf in berlin this is the day. To serve superimposed upon a search the 96. 00. County. Number since the onset there. Were likely to lose another 250000 people. And were not in a good place cannot be travelling through solid. Diminish to the extent possible travel christmas is going to be a long one. Also coming up a report from a remote corner of russia where distance is no defense against the coronavirus but with a look at one time there was a huge line of hearses standing in line outside the morgue it was only then that people started to understand that the death had really come. Down to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of our viewers around the world welcome we begin. On the day with statistics from the pandemic numbers that are usually attached to natural disasters or terror attacks not to a virus in the United States more than 2800 people died yesterday from coated 90 more than on any other day sin