it also pointed to the impact of an apple software update last year that lets people choose whether or not they want to be tracked around the internet by firms like meta who can sell that information to advertisers. overall, the results, though, had investors hitting the like button with meta s share price rising sharply. let s return to the conflict in ukraine, where the government has told the un that more than 500,000 of its civilians have been forcibly deported to russia, including 120,000 children. the kremlin says ukrainians are willingly moving to russia. but the bbc has heard from the families of some of those taken captive by russian forces, and civilians who ve been returned from russia on prisoner exchanges, who refute these claims. yogita limaye reports. still in disbelief that he is back home. this red cross volunteer was deported to russia, captured as he
the number of people using facebook every day rose again to nearly two billion reversing a recent decline. the news sent meta shares up by almost a fifth, despite the company reporting slower revenue growth and warning of a difficult advertising market. 0ur north america business correspondent michelle fleury has been telling us more. the existential threat to facebook is, is it still cool? well, one measure is how many people are still using the social network. and on that front, it appears to have satisfied investors. facebook s daily active users were 1.96 billion on average for march. that s an increase of 4% year over year and better than expected. to reflect who we are. the company s founder and ceo, mark zuckerberg, spoke optimistically, saying we made progress this quarter across a number of key company priorities. from now on, we re going to be metaverse first. but meta, the parent company of facebook and instagram, still has plenty of issues.
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all around the world and how they can be better supported. why the colour of our skin can affect our chances of having a healthy pregnancy. ijust don t think we re being listened to, and heard in the spaces. do you think it is about the colour of your skin? absolutely. yes, absolutely. yes. and heard from one group often left out of the conversation. my wife was near to die. and i d cry sitting on the toilet because that was the only time i could get to be alone. that report from our global health correspondent, tulip mazumder. meta the company which owns facebook and instagram has reported better than expected profits of seven and a half billion dollars in the first three months of the year. the number of people using facebook every day rose again
itjust reported its weakest revenue growth for a decade. the company explained that ad budgets were coming under strain from inflation, made worse since russia s invasion of ukraine. it also pointed to the impact of an apple software update last year that lets people choose whether or not they want to be tracked around the internet by firms like meta who can sell that information to advertisers. overall, the results, though, had investors hitting the like button with meta s share price rising sharply. a man has been charged with the murders of four members of the same family who were found stabbed to death in bermondsey, in south east london. joshua jacques is accused of killing denton burke, his partner dolet hill, her daughter tanysha 0fori akuffo, and tanysha s daughter samantha drummonds. their bodies were found in a house in bermondsey on monday. the 28 year old suspect is due before westminster magistrates later today. a man is due in court this morning