the social media company twitter has begun sudden and sweeping job cuts to save money. it s thought its new owner elon musk, who s the world s richest man, might reduce the platform s workforce of 8 thousand by as much as half. many twitter staff are finding out via email that they no longer have a job. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of employees laid off today. instead he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. meanwhile, many twitter staff woke up locked out of their work laptops. they were later told by an e mail to the personal accounts that it was the last working day at the firm. some have been told they will be paid until february next year, getting some sort of certainty after months of uncertainty. in some cases, some relief, right? because this was a thing that played out over the course of the majority of this year. there were, understandably, lots of emotional tweets. another said. f
live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in washington in the united states where it s a crucial night for the committee investigating the january sixth capitol riot, when supporters of former president donald trump stormed congress, while lawmakers met to certinyoe biden s election victory last year. this will be the committee s eighth hearing, and maybe the final televised hearing before the report is published in the autumn. let s hearfrom two insiders who were in the trump white house onjanuary 6th. matthew pottinger, the deputy national security adviser. he s one of the few senior officials to have been there, throughout the trump administration. as countless others left, he stayed. until the afternoon of jan 6. at 2:24, the president sent this tweet attacking mike pence at the very moment his supporters were in the capitol search for the vice president. at tha
and the reason the party has chosen to put health and care right at the centre is because the voters are saying that s one of their biggest concerns, if not the biggest. they worry about the health service, getting a gp, finding an nhs dentist. they re worried also about care for their loved ones. and we ve been talking about social care, but we ve also been talking about family care, a because that s really important. there are millions of people looking after loved ones who don t get the support they deserve. and you ve talked, you ve talked about. and also my. ..your disabled son. ..my own personal experience, you know, my dad dying when i was four and then my mum became terminally ill when i was 12 and i nursed her with my brother until she died when i was 15. then my brothers and my nana and granddad looked after me, and then i looked after my nana when she became frail and elderly, and now i look after my son, john, who s got an undiagnosed brain condition, and it mea
x ed to 231231. this situation room with wolf blitzer welcome to week nitric six cnn are they dueling canaries in the coal mine? i, michael smerconish in philadelphia. this week came to different events that might forecast the outcome of the 2024 american election. first, the elections in europe that leaned right. and second, the arrest of eight foreign nationals believed seem to be affiliated with isis, who entered via the mexican border. i have amazing expertise on hand to discuss each kurt volker, former us ambassador to nato at richard clarke, former adviser to three us presidents. first to the eu elections last weekend, which saw right-wing populist parties score big wins driven in part by board what or politics and inflation? far-right parties won 134 of the european parliament s 720 seats forming a substantial block against mainstream parties, assembling coalitions that are needed to pass laws. the right gain significantly in the union s three biggest countries, fr