To double the countrys daily coronavirus Testing Capacity, by opening two new megalabs. A crucial week for brexit trade negotiations with eu leaders hope to sign off on a deal on thursday. And if you want to get in touch on any of todays stories, please do you can tweet me rebeccajonesbbc or with bbcyourquestions. The head of the International Olympic Committee Says hes confident the postponed tokyo games will go ahead in front of spectators next year. Three, two, one, zero. Ignition. And coming up. Taxi for space . The new era for extraterrestial travel as the space x capsule heads into orbit hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Iam i am rebecca jones. The Prime Minister is to carry on working from downing street after being told to self isolate by the nhs test and trace system. Borisjohnson says he was pinged as he put it because of a meeting he had last week with conservati
Over the weekend we sell riots. We saw widespread looting erupting in minnesota again after a 20yearold africanamerican man, his name is daunte right, he was fatally shot by police while resisting arrest according to reports and attempting to flee the scene in a motor vehicle, according to Law Enforcement, this was the result of an accidental discharge after the officer involved intended to deploy her taser incentive her firearm according to the police chief. In the body can video you can clearly hear this officer screaming taser, taser, before firing one shot. Well let you decide. The facts need to come out. Warning, what you are about to see is extremely graphic. Take a look. [inaudible] ill tase you ill tase you Taser Taser Taser [bleep] elijah shot him. Sean the officer that fired the fatal shot is on leave. We pray for the family of daunte wright. There must be a full, thorough, complete investigation but the Brooklyn Center city manager who just called for due process has been fi
The deal is final ahead of tomorrows deadline to close but of course, there is a tweet elon musk writing just about an hour ago. The bird is freed. We get the developing story from ktvu Jana Katsuyama live outside twitter headquarters in San Francisco, jenna. Mike i spoke with some twitter employees off camera and they tell me that they were given no advance notice internally before news about this transition broke tonight. Just before nine p. M. In San Francisco elon musk posted on twitter. The bird is freed. It came just minutes before the midnight deadline in delaware to close the twitter deal. Musk started the day thursday with a message on twitter to advertisers, saying the reason he required twitter is to have quote a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner. He said. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more heat and dividers society. Bu
Social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and dividers society. But musk did not say how he envisioned creating that town square on twitter, which already has fractured echo chambers or how to moderate users who do incite violence and how content would be curated to avoid the spread of lies or misinformation. The Electronic Frontier foundation says. Those are Critical Issues concerned that there were risks to human rights and personal safety. Any time any Single Person has complete unchecked control over policies affecting almost 400 million users would love it if they brought their International Guidelines here to the u. S overseas. The hate speech is much more monitored, reportedly told employees during his visit wednesday that he does not plan to lay off 75 of the 7500 workers. But on thursday he did fire the ceo ceo. Oh policy head and general counsel twitter struggle. Called to be a place that handled their moderation we
Saying, yes its pretty bad. When you talk to caucuses on both sides and you get a glimpse of the inside players. Now from the 15th annual harlem book fair a discussion of science and health. This is an hour and 15 minutes. So our first panel is titled mythologies of race, good science and health. Before i introduce our moderator i also want to acknowledge rich who worked with me tirelessly in pulling these panelists together , discussing and coming up with the ideas of what are the conversations that we are going to present, what are the conversations that impact us as a community and we should discuss and see if we can find a way in or a way out. So again thank you so much, rich. Our moderator for a first panel is earths are sheldon krimsky. He is the author of genetic justice, dna databank in criminal investigations and civil liberties. He is a professor of humanities and social sciences. He is that tops university so you had me there. Tops. Oh that stuffs. You know how these academi