As a default setting. Social media companies have been under growing pressure to protect children from harmful online content. Heres our Technology Editor zoe kleinman. Instagram already claims to have more than 50 tools aimed at keeping teens safe on its platform. But so far, the problem of children being exposed to harmful content has not been resolved. Well, i dont know if its social media, but i think as parents we should have the right to see it. An Ofcom Study earlier this year found that every single child it spoke to had seen violent material online. Instagram was one of the platforms they mentioned the most. The new measures aim put more control into the hands of parents. Accou nts accounts belonging to anyone under the age of 18 are made private by default. Now, if someone under 16 wants to make an account public, they have to add a parent to approve it, and that perak will be able to see who they message which topics they follow. Notifications will be muted overnight, and yo
Now the worlds 2nd worst affected country. After months at sea in a wooden boats nearly 300. 00 rohingya make it to indonesias problems. Tropical storm hi sam moves towards north korea lashing south korea with strong winds heavy rain. And im only a harding with your sports news world number one Novak Djokovic is disqualified from the u. S. Open after hitting a ball into the throat of a line judge. Let me begin with a developing story out of bella russa prominence protest leader is missing after an incident in the center of the capital minsk in the last few hours. The cobra who spoken at many major rallies was taken away in a. By unidentified people shes been accounting manager for opposition politicians and of vocal supporter. Taken of scalia who is now in exile in lithuania or bonn in smiths monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania boehner just talk us through what we know about this latest incident. Or were hearing from activists connected with maria colonists that she was
Country. After months and seen you know wooden boats nearly 300 working to make it to indonesias actually province. And were live in manchester for an inquiry into the 2017 a reno bombing survivors see counsellors as to whether it could have been prevented. And im we are starting with your sports news i know that djokovic is disqualified from the u. S. Open after hitting a ball that strikes a female line judge in the pro. A prominent belarus Opposition Leader is missing after being abducted off a street in the capital minutes comedia cuts whos spoken at many major rallies was taken away in a van by unidentified people shes been a Campaign Manager for opposition politicians and a vocal supporter of sideline a to kind of sky whos now in exile in lithuania bannan smith is monitoring developments from neighboring lithuania brianna just bring us up to date with what we know about this alleged abduction. Well its clear that the risk of being taken off the streets or arrested in a protest sti
Livelihoods hundreds of thousands in bangladesh wait for help in rising flood waters. Also logging on to learn a few can afford it most nigerian children are missing out as schools stay closed. But asias former Prime Minister najib razak has been found guilty of 7 corruption charges the verdict comes from the 1st trial linked to the one m. T. B. State Investment Fund scandal when he was in power and as you pointed used to die any wrongdoing and says he will appeal this 1st case centered on the transfer of nearly 10000000. 00 from a unit of one and d b into now personal accounts hes been convicted of abuse of power 3 counts of criminal breach of trust us and 3 counts of Money Laundering that he launched one n. D. B. As a state Investment Fund when he was Prime Minister in 2009 farms louise joining us live from kuala lumpur finds us talk us through whats been happening in court 1st of all. Well the judge took a couple of hours to read out his verdict and he found not guilty on all 7 coun
The countries that originally dumped them since the 3rd quarter of last year. And. The illegal shipments of come from developed nations such as france the u. K. And the us Southeast Asian countries such as malaysia have been flooded with western rubbish since china refused to accept any more plastic shipments in 2018 but time and again there is a legal consignments of being rejected so we have sent 150 yeah 110 more that we will send across the 3 different. Ports in malaysia and its the dumping countries that will foot the bill malaysia says it wont be paying a penny to send the stuff back. The International Monetary fund has cut Global Growth estimates for 2020 the leader of the i. M. F. In davos switzerland for the Word Economic Forum today to discuss the World Economic outlook the i. M. F. Reports that compared to the outlook report in october estimated Global Growth for this year is down 110th of a percent to 3. 3 percent growth one of the major reasons for the dip in projected gro