The u. S. House Intelligence Committee is investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen president ial poll its released a trove of facebook ads linked to a Russian Internet Agency Representatives from Facebook Twitter and alphabet have been testifying at back to back hearings in both the congress and senate with facebook being the first to announce it had evidence of russian meddling on social media lawmakers have slammed the companies for failing to rein in russian use of their sites to manipulate the american political process when it comes to extra security costs facebooks Third Quarter profits soared to four point seven one billion dollars. Lets get to yes quarter standing by the New York Stock Exchange on this one even Facebook Says russias influence was reprehensible yes shouldnt these companies have been hindering outside interference of any sort. Legally probably not morally probably yes i mean this whole situation is a rather new and we didnt have to deal with probl
The heads of internet job sites who will face. All are a syrian peace talks under geneva. This government warplanes into rebel held town near the lebanese border well the deceased old city of homes and getting some relief some relief. Several hundred more residents evacuated residents caught in the crossfire for eighteen months. His concern over the whereabouts of men taken from the siege by government forces. Well as legal history day state visit to the United States french president also known to be welcomed. In some ninety minutes time by california governor jerry brown. Holmes will then lunch with losses in internet giants like google and facebook before heading to the silicone valley. It will be. To be playing a little bit salesman and the other that perhaps dressing down some of those internet giants over the issue of tax avoidance. The french president make you come and take turns to me. Us technology johns comes the tricky kind. Just ate the full monty get to see become tiny pe
Has now partially reopened but make no mistake here. The affects on flights across the world will be felt for hours to come and quite possibly even days. Lets go to karl penhaul with more on this. Let me just point out we know the u. K. Global air Traffic Control Management Company has just tweeted and this is what they have tweeted. We are investigating the cause of this fault but can confirm that it was not due to a power outage. Tell me what we do know. Reporter what we do know in the words of one female passenger, this is a mess. This is a disaster. We do know as you say an air Traffic Control center run by the national air Traffic Control service had what they are calling a technical glitch. That came about four hours ago. They said they wouldnt necessarily describe that as a computer problem but more just a technical problem and say it definitely was not a power outage. That lasted for about an hour. After that the systems got back up and running but its had a huge knock on effec
New information about the gunman behind the terror attack in a sydney cafe. Australias Prime Minister speaking out just hours ago. Were live in sydney with the latest new information. Good morning, everyone, welcome to early start. Im john berman. Its wednesday, december 17th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Christine romans is off this morning. Breaking overnight. Premiere cancelled. New fears overwhelming the industry. The landmark chain announced that the interview that premiere has been called off, it had been set for tomorrow. This follows a new warning from the group behind it. Huge cyberattack against sony. They call themselves the guardians of peace. And they promise violence at theaters which show the interview. Now despite the cancellation, a person close to the situation tells cnn that over, sony has no plans to pull the film altogether. Cnns pamela brown with the latest from washington. Pamela. Well john, this morning, the fbi is investigating a threatening message reportedly from
The u. S. House Intelligence Committee is investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen president ial poll its released a trove of facebook ads linked to a Russian Internet Agency Representatives from Facebook Twitter and alphabet have been testifying at back to back hearings in both the congress and senate with facebook being the first to announce it had evidence of russian meddling on social media lawmakers have slammed the companies for failing to rein in russian use of their sites to manipulate the american political process when it comes to extra security costs facebooks Third Quarter profits soared to four point seven one billion dollars. Lets go to yes quarter whos standing by at the New York Stock Exchange on this one even Facebook Says russias influence was reprehensible yes shouldnt these companies have been hindering outside interference of any sort. Legally probably not morally probably yes i mean this whole situation is a rather new and we didnt have to deal wit