Antonio gutteres has expressed great concern over rising Political Tension in myanmar. The armed forces are contesting the results of the election last november, which was overwhelmingly won by the Ruling National League at 10 00, Sophie Raworth will be here with a full round up of the days news. First do black lives matter in brazil . In the first half of 2020, more people were killed by the police in Rio Dejaniero state than in the whole of america. 75 were black brazilians, many of whom were just teenagers. We must give a strong warning that this programme contains Graphic Violence and very distressing images, from the outset. Sirens wail. They chant. The police stand accused of inflicting brutal violence. Most often seen to be hurt are young black men. They chant. Police brutality here is often horrific to watch. Shocking violence causing terror and fear every day. But given how often it happens, there are no mass protests, no backlash in the media, nojustice. In the year that blac
The big Silicon Valley Tech Companies had a hugely successful 2020, prompting more questions about their overwhelming dominance in financial and business terms. From san francisco, James Clayton reports. There have been winners and losers from this pandemic, and some of the biggest winners are also some of the Richest Companies in the world, based around san francisco. Take here at apple, last week, the Company Posted record Quarterly Sales of more than £80 billion. At that rate, during this 2. 5 minute news report, apple will have done 1. 5 million worth of sales. Big tech has had an astonishingly profitable pandemic. We all turned to technology more during the pandemic. Its as simple as that. We were doing more things online than ever before, from gaming to shopping, to seeing our doctor, you know, theyre not charities. Laughter you know, they are making money out of, you know, what theyre enabling. But some believe that making so much money at a time of Economic Hardship shows that
Seriously. Thank you for your time. You know, i just have to address this issue. We began this process of considering e. C. W. s, both with the policy, and then, people came to us and said, dont do the policy and considering whether or not to have them. Start with having them, and then do the policy. Over and over and over again, we heard that, so what did we do . We did what people asked, and now, im hearing all these voices saying well, why isnt there a policy . There isnt a policy because people who have asked for a policy for to have tazers, and then build a policy around it. Do you know how many take this seriously, how many meetings that weve gone to, how many public hearings we have had and by the way, commissioner hirsch is not the only one whos never voted. We never got around to voting, so commissioner hing has never voted on this, nor have i, nor has commissioner melara. We are all taking it seriously. We want to hear what the public has to say, and we have to switch rooms b
The westminster area, but this is what it is like in this area, people are going about their daily business, milling about, and there are business, milling about, and there a re protests. So business, milling about, and there are protests. So at the moment we do not know which type of groups are here and what they are specifically doing, other than the intel police have told us, which is that they wa nt to have told us, which is that they want to come in their own words, defend the monuments and statues that they feel are being vandalised in and around the westminster area. Chi chi izundu in westminster, many thanks for talking to us today. Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. Hello. Its a bit of a mixed day out there. For some of us, some blue sky and some sunshine, for other areas, some torrential downpours. And thats really the way it looks through the rest of the weekend. There will be some sunshine that its going to feel quite warm, quite humid as well, b
3040 the afternoon and with gusts around 30 a0 mph we have rain and showers in the forecast so there will be dark shower clouds looming on the horizon. Low pressure in charge day, the centre of the low is right here and moving southwards, the main band of rain moving south across england, wales and Northern Ireland followed by those shower clouds. Those showers could be heavy with some thunder sweeping across the midlands into east anglia for a time overnight, with rain returning to eastern scotland, sinking southwards during the second part of the night backin during the second part of the night back in across eastern england, so turning wet from northumberland down to about lincolnshire. Overnight lows around eight celsius give or take. Tomorrow we have got more rain in the forecast, starting off across these eastern areas of england pushing southwards through the day, the rain is likely to turn more showery in nature come across the north west, for Northern Ireland, scotland, north