meta, which owns facebook, says threads will be part of its instagram platform so it ll be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts to begin with. but the app has already been criticised for the amount of data it may collect. ray wang is a principal analyst constellation research and explained why threads could be a serious threat to twitter. it s a massive threat if you think about twitter, it only has one of 150 million active users. if you see what s going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking 2.96 billion users, so let s look at this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we used to say mass adoption of technology has occurred, chatgpt did it in 30 days, facebook live in 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get the 50 million users in probably less than hours and probably get 150 million users in less than two months. that means it s a direct threat to twitter. at the same time some users aren t happy with recent restrictions like the number of tweets you can lo
either. thank you for being with us. we start in the middle east were israeli forces have started to withdraw from the city ofjenin in the west bank after carrying out one of the biggest military operations there in years. israel says the action was an attempt to root out terrorists but palestinians have described it as a walk. the refugee camp was set up after the arab israeli war in 1948. thousands of people have i948. thousands of people have left the cams since the operation started in this latest violence at least 12 palestinians have been killed and more than 15 injured. it defence forces say one soldier has also died during the assault. separately, seven people were also injured in an attack in tel aviv by a palestinian from the west bank. rotational editorjeremy bowen is injenin with the latest. the israeli military released these pictures. their message? israel s enemies can expect no mercy. rapid gunfire families caught in the crossfire managed to get out overnight.
us treasury secretary janet has again sent a letter to congress warning the treasury would be unable to satisfy its obligations as early as 1june. presidentjoe biden will meet top lawmakers including republican house of representatives speaker kevin mccarthy at 3p able a good time on tuesday. of course that meeting was postponed from last friday. samira hussain has more from new york. in less than two weeks the united states could fail to meet its debt obligations. if lawmakers in washington cannot come to some sort of agreement. the republicans have continued to demand cuts to social security before they will agree to raise the borrowing limit. us presidentjoe biden has repeatedly said he would not set conditions that must raise the debt limit his failure to do so would result in an economic catastrophe. some of the possible outcomes of the job losses, those that depend on social security benefits won t get paid, and of course the most dire of outcomes would be the loss of c
full sized sd scan that s been created. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. there ve been dramatic scenes in northern italy after 1a rivers burst their banks, flooding 23 towns. at least eight people died, after parts of the emilia romagna region saw half a metre of rain injust 36 hours. the extreme weather comes as scientists warned that the world will almost certainly experience its hottest year on record within the next five years. and a key temperature threshold is likely to be breached for the first time which is a rise in global temperature by 1.5 degrees celsius, above pre industrial levels. here s our climate editor, justin rowlatt. remember last summer? temperatures in england breached a0 degrees celsius for the first time, driving wildfires and helping make 2022 the hottest year ever recorded in the uk. and we can expect even hotter weather worldwide in the coming years, according to the world meteorological organisatio