first involved the deaths of 346 people in two crashes in indonesia in 2018 and ethiopia in 2019. addressing employees at its factory in washington state, where the planes are assembled, ce dave calhoun said boeing would approach the issue with complete transparency. when i got that picture, and i hope all of you in some way, i hope most of you have seen it, and those of you who haven t haven t will look at it, all i could think about was i did not know what happened to whoever was supposed to be in the seat next to that hole in the airplane. i ve got kids, grandkids, and so do you. this stuff matters. earlier i spoke to professor graham braithwaite, director of transport systems at cranfield university and asked him what he thought his demonstration would do to reassure customers and investors. i think we ve seen a big difference in the way that boeing has reacted to this event and how it reacted when we had the first two max accidents. there s clearly an acknowledgement tha
good afternoon. three hours of checking out the truth behind stories. starting in the uk, starting mps will debate this afternoon the report that found former prime minister borisjohnson deliberately misled parliament over lockdown parties in downing street. the commons privileges committee said mrjohnson commited repeated offences, but he s denounced the committee as a kangaroo court. they recommended a 90 day suspension but he had already stood down as an mp. the bbc has seen an individuation to poetry event in december 2020 held at conservative party headquarters banning indoor socialising. this video emerged over the weekend showing a a roomful of people with apparently joking the weekend showing a a roomful of people with apparentlyjoking about westminster regulations. let s go to our correspondence. set the scene for us. ,., ., ., ., ., our correspondence. set the scene for us. ., ., , for us. good afternoon, a sun shinin: for us. good afternoon, a sun shining day. fo
behind the alibaba single - our asia correspondent. he was behind the alibaba single stay l behind the alibaba single stay phenomenon in 2009 and has been the chief executive for about eight years and he has been the chairman for around four years but now he is stepping down and he willjust focus on heading up the company s new cloud computing unit which is going to work on artificial intelligence. it is all part of the company s broader pivot away from e commerce and online shopping is what made it its fortune but in recent years sales have been sluggish and the value of the company has diminished and the management decided there was need for a rethink so about three months ago they announced the company would be splitting up into six. we company would be splitting up into six. ~ , . ~ company would be splitting up into six. ~ , ., ~ ., ., company would be splitting up into six. ~ , w . ., , company would be splitting up into six. we will break away to bring you some news
we are shocked like everyone in greece, obviously. after we were informed of this incident, all services were mobilised. the municipality of kalamata we have prepared. we are hearing that, unfortunately, the number of dead is increasing. our europe correspondent nick beake is in athens and has this update. we don t know the scale of this disaster tonight, but it s clear it is bad. more than 100 people have been rescued, but survivors are saying that up to 700 people, they believe, were on board this fishing boat. it set off reportedly from libya and was heading to italy. an image has emerged showing the vessel packed with people in the deepest part of the mediterranean. no one, it would seem, had a life jacket on. the greek authorities have said tonight that they went towards the vessel and that no one wanted help when they offered it. but that has been challenged by an organisation which provides an emergency phone number for people at sea, and it says, in fact, the authorit