Channel repeatedly exposed the kremlin s corruption. It now has over 30 million followers. And so despised is he by the leadership in moscow, that mr putin never refers to him by name. So, it was an extremely brave thing to go back. But how he is paying for it . But how he is paying for it. Alexei navalny was already serving nine years in a high security prison for alleged fraud, a Parole Violation and contempt of court. Today, a judge added another ten for alleged links to extremism, which his supporters say were entirely fabricated. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg was in court as mr navalny was sentenced he sent this report. This is the closest we were allowed to get to russias most famous prisoner. Wed been let inside the High Securityjail where Alexei Navalny is already incarcerated. But journalists werent allowed into the makeshift courtroom. We had to watch on a screen. For the kremlin critic, this is a trial behind bars. He was found guilty on extremism charges. Punishment mor
today s vast social media empires are managed by a handful of big names meta, snap, tiktok, discord and x. their bosses faced angry lawmakers in washington for a tense grilling about why children continue to be exposed to harm on their platforms. as a mother, this is personal and i share the sense of urgency. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. it may have been heartfelt, but the senators weren t buying it. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. mark zuckerberg from meta, which owns facebook and instagram, came under the heaviest fire. these results may contain images of child sexual abuse, and then you gave users two choices get resources, or see results anyway. mr zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking? all right, senator, the basic science behind that is that when people are s
zuckerberg, insisted they were investing billions in safety and trust. here s our technology editor, zoe kleinman. today s vast social media empires are managed by a handful of big names meta, snap, tiktok, discord and x. their bosses faced angry lawmakers in washington for a tense grilling about why children continue to be exposed to harm on their platforms. as a mother, this is personal and i share the sense of urgency. words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow i feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm. it may have been heartfelt, but the senators weren t buying it. mr zuckerberg, you and i the companies before us, i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. mark zuckerberg from meta, which owns facebook and instagram, came under the heaviest fire. these results may contain images of child sexual abuse, and then you gave users two choices get resources, or see results anyway. mr z
will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been drone attacks on russian regions bordering
hello and welcome to the bbc s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, what s it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they can t get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when you re seeing drones versus russianjets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid i9 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now- who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny- the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility- that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could